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February 24th, 2021
Time for public conversation on mandatory vaccination – Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Social Commentator and talk show host Claude O. Skelton-Cline has called for a public conversation on mandatory vaccinations, should frontline workers refuse to get vaccinated amidst wider concerns of vaccine hesitancy in the Virgin Islands (VI).

February 19th, 2021
COVID-19 vaccination portal temporarily closed

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – With some 763 persons vaccinated as of Thursday, February 18, 2021, and some 1500 pending in the government’s registration portal, Minister for Health and Social Development, Hon Carvin Malone (AL) has revealed that the portal is now temporarily closed for updates to the registration forms.

February 18th, 2021
Zero recorded active COVID-19 cases in VI– Hon Malone

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – The [British] Virgin Islands (VI) is now at zero recorded active cases of COVID-19, Minister for Health and Social Development, Hon Carvin Malone (AL) announced this afternoon, February 18, 2021.

February 15th, 2021
VI's active COVID-19 cases drop to 2

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Virgin Islands (VI) continues to see a steady decline in COVID-19 cases, with just 2 active cases currently in the territory, according to the latest February 14, 2021 stats released by local health authorities.

February 15th, 2021
COVID-19 vaccination necessary but ‘an agenda’ - Angelle A. Cameron

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, IV – As global countries embark on mass vaccination of its citizens, former Mrs BVI, Angelle A. Cameron says she believes the vaccine and rollout are part of an agenda being perpetrated to scare persons.

February 13th, 2021
USVI announces 25th COVID-19 related death

VI CONSORTIUM

CHARLOTTE AMALE, ST. Thomas, USVI - The USVI Department of Health (D.O.H) this week confirmed its 25th COVID-19 related death in the U.S. Virgin Islands, which comes over a month after the 24th fatality.

February 13th, 2021
The Vaccine Passport: Friend or Foe?

By Dickson C. Igwe

A second critical travel document- a vaccine passport- is looking inevitable. Issues are mounting on the why, what, where, how, and when, of a vaccination passport. Then, will a vaccine passport begin a new level of social, economic, and travel, discrimination?

February 11th, 2021
Health Minister Hon Carvin Malone takes VI’s first COVID-19 jab

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Minister for Health and Social Development, Hon Carvin Malone (AL) has received the territory’s first COVID-19 jab, leading by example as the Virgin Islands (VI) embarks on the rollout of its public vaccination programme.

February 10th, 2021
First COVID-19 vaccine batch to expire on May 31, 2021 - Dr Ronald E. Georges

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – The race is on to vaccinate some 4000 people in the Virgin Islands, given the first batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca (AZD1222) COVID-19 vaccine in the Virgin Islands (VI) will expire on May 31, 2021, according to Acting Chief Medical Officer, Dr Ronald E. Georges.

February 6th, 2021
‘I come with open arms’ for the COVID-19 vaccine - Hon Malone

TRELLIS BAY, Beef Island, VI – Minister for Health and Social Development, Hon Carvin Malone (AL) said he is ready with ‘open arms’ for his first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca AZD1222 COVID-19 vaccine, to be administered in the new week.

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