St. Vincent and the Grenadines recorded a total of nine new positive cases onTuesday March 30, 2021. Eight (8) cases are from one hundred and forty-nine (149)samples collected and tested on Monday, March 29th, 2021, giving a positivity rateof 5.4%. One (1) case is from some of the samples collected and tested on Tuesday,March 30. Five (5) of these cases are contacts of known COVID-19 positive casesand four (4) are persons with symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 seeking care.No new recoveries were reported, leaving the number of total recoveries at fifteenhundred and eighty-seven (1587). One hundred and fifty-one (151) cases remainactive…
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Almost a year Vincentians complained about being robbed by persons conducting pyramid schemes here in SVG. The scheme was being sold as a SUE- SUE hand by persons asking you to join, which promised to give you over $10,800 when your hand matures. This sounds quite tantalizing! It is only until you realized you have been caught and robbed; examination of the scheme(s) should have been given before entering it which would have made any individuals aware that it is/was a scam they are getting into. Persons would have questioned and continues to question. How could a SUE- SUE hand…
The Modern Medical Diagnostic Centre (MMDC) is now better equipped to handle additional patients who are seeking Chemotherapy treatment, this with the injection of four infusion pumps to its stock recently. The pumps were handed over to the institution on Thursday 25th March 2021, through the kind donation of the Consulate of St. Vincent and the Grenadines in Toronto, Canada, in conjunction with the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Disaster Relief Initiative Platform (SVGDRIP). Minister of State within the Office of the Prime Minster with responsibility for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Keisal Peters revealed that the donation is…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Monday, March 29 recorded no new positive cases from 79 samples collected and tested on Sunday, March 28, 2021, a release from the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) said. “No new recoveries were reported, leaving the number of total recoveries at fifteen hundred and eighty-seven (1587). One hundred and forty-two (142) cases remain active and ten (10) persons with COVID-19 have died. One thousand, seven hundred and thirty-nine (1739) cases of COVID-19 have been reported in St. Vincent and the Grenadines since March 2020,” the release said. The public is urged to continue to…
Washington Post -The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines being deployed to fight the coronavirus pandemic are robustly effective in preventing infections in real-life conditions, according to a federal study released Monday that provides reassurance of protection for front-line workers in the United States. In a study of about 4,000 health-care personnel, police, firefighters and other essential workers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the vaccines reduced the risk of infection by 80 percent after one shot. Protection increased to 90 percent following the second dose. The findings are consistent with clinical trial results and studies showing strong effectiveness…
The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment wishes to advise the general public that as part of the its mosquito control programme for the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito, the Insect Vector Control Unit will be conducting fogging operations at schools across St. Vincent and the island of Bequia commencing at 5:00 pm daily. In addition the following areas will be treated: Wednesday, 31st March 2021 – Calder & Victoria Village Thursday, 1st April 2021 – Stubbs, Green Hill, Fountain, Cane Hall, Fairbane Pasture, Cedars, Keartons, Barrouallie, Three Rivers & South Rivers Please take note of the following: • Home…
A giant container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week has finally been freed after a mammoth salvage operation using tug boats. The 400m-long (1,300ft) Ever Given was wedged across the canal before salvage crews dislodged her on Monday. It was not immediately clear when full traffic could resume in the canal. Suez is one of the world’s busiest trade routes, and companies were forced to reroute ships, causing long tailbacks of hundreds of vessels. Peter Berdowski, CEO of Dutch salvage company Boskalis, said the Ever Given had been refloated at 15:05 (13:05 GMT) on Monday, “thereby…
London (CNN)London has recorded zero daily deaths from Covid-19 in a single day for the first time in over six months, official data indicates. Public Health England (PHE) statistics from Sunday showed no fatalities within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test in the UK capital, while the country as a whole recorded 19 deaths.The last daily record of zero deaths in the capital was on September 14 before a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic struck Britain. The data for Covid-19 deaths is usually lower on Mondays due to a lag in authorities reporting numbers over the weekend but…
Police in the South Central Division have been conducting investigations into a series of burglaries within that division. In light of this, a number of flat screen televisions and a speaker have been recovered and are presently being held at the Calliaqua Police Station.The respective owners are therefore asked to contact the Calliaqua Police Station at telephone number 1784-458-4200 or visit the station to identify and claim. Please walk along with some form of identification.
NORTH SOUND, Antigua (CMC) — Head coach Phil Simmons believes the sterling final day effort to save the opening Test against Sri Lanka was just as valuable as a victory, as it highlighted the growing maturity in the West Indies batting ranks. Set 375 for victory at the Vivian Richards Cricket Stadium, West Indies safely navigated the final hour of the penultimate day to end on 34 for one, before batting the entire final day on Thursday to reach 236 for four. In doing so, West Indies batted 100 overs in their second innings, marking the third time in as…