A French nun who is Europe’s oldest person has survived Covid-19, just days before her 117th birthday. Lucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre in 1944, tested positive for coronavirus on 16 January but didn’t develop any symptoms. She told local media she “didn’t even realise I had it”. She isolated separately from other residents in her retirement home in Toulon, southern France, but is now considered fully recovered. Sister Andre, who is blind and uses a wheelchair, is now looking forward to celebrating her birthday on Thursday – although she is going to mark the occasion with…
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Tuesday February 9, 2021 the Ministry of Health received confirmation from the Ezra Long Laboratory of 110 new cases of COVID-19. This is from a total of 247 samples processed on Sunday February 7, 2021 for a range of days. All of these individuals were seen within the community at a respiratory clinic where they were assessed and tested for COVID-19. In-keeping with the COVID-19 testing protocol, they were placed in quarantine by health care practitioners while awaiting their COVID-19 test results. Following receipt of their test results arrangements are being made to move these individuals from quarantine into isolation.…
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Twitter will not allow former president Donald Trump back on the platform even if he runs for office again, the company’s chief financial officer said Wednesday. “The way our policies work, when you’re removed from the platform, you’re removed from the platform, whether you’re a commentator, a CFO or a current or former public official,” Ned Segal said in an interview with television network CNBC. Trump’s “de-platforming” by Twitter came after a violent uprising by his supporters leading to a deadly siege at the US Capitol on January 6. Facebook and other social networks also…
Britain’s Health Secretary said Tuesday that any traveler who visits the United Kingdom from a “red list” country faces steep fines a possible 10-year prison sentence, reports said. Matt Hancock was referring to the new policy that came into effect on Monday. “We are coming down hard on people who provide false information on the passenger locator form,” he said, according to the Evening Standard. “Anyone who lies on the passenger locator form and tries to conceal that they have been in a country on the ‘red list’ in the ten days before arrival here, will face a prison sentence…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today confirmed sixteen (16) new COVID-19 casesfrom swabs taken between February 2nd and 9th. These cases were detected during entry and exit screening, contact tracing and testing of persons with flu symptoms. There are now one thousand, one hundred and eighty-nine (1189) local cases of COVID-19. Two (2) additional persons have died from complications of COVID-19. An 87- year-old hypertensive man was admitted on February 6, 2021 in an unresponsive state and tested positive for COVID-19. He remained unresponsive and died on February 8, 2021 from a stroke and pneumonia related to COVID-19. The second…
On 08.02.2021, Police arrested and charged David Richards, 24 years Farmer of Calder, with unlawfully and maliciously wounding a 24-year-old resident of Gomea by beating her about her body with his hands. The offence occurred on 03.02.2021 at Calder. The Accused will appear before the court to answer to the charge.
Prime Minister Allen Chastanet says he does not have the legal authority to postpone elections, due later this year. He said everyone can expect elections within the legal period that the constitution prescribes. Chastanet spoke to reporters on Tuesday as he arrived for a sitting of parliament. He was responding to concerns over whether Saint Lucia may postpone elections amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “My understanding is that we have, legally, until July to call elections and that there is a provision for a three-month extension past that,” he explained. “But I would also say that I don’t know of a…
Effective tomorrow, February 10, the island-wide curfew will commence at 8 p.m and end at 5 a.m, daily. This new curfew will be in effect until February 24, 2021. The announcement was made in Parliament a short while ago. Public gatherings have also been reduced from 15 to 10 people. “If we don’t act now, we could overwhelm the health system,” Holness said. He added that the Government will adjust the restrictions once the COVID cases decrease. Holness stated that a ticketing legislation for violation of curfew hours and quarantine orders will be brought before Parliament in the upcoming weeks.…
Jamaica has recorded its highest number of COVID-19 cases in a 24-hour period, with 403 cases recorded from 1,935 samples tested in the last 24 hours. Jamaica on Monday recorded one more COVID-19 fatality, pushing the total to 359. The deceased is an 84-year-old male from Kingston and St Andrew. The ages of the new cases range from 63 days to 96 years, pushing the total to 17,701 with 4,793 being active. Of the new cases, 154 are males and 249 are females. In the meantime, there were 44 more recoveries, increasing the total to 12,362. Some 156 persons are…
The first death was that of a 53 year-old female with a history of chronic noncommunicable diseases. She died at Harrison Point where she had been a patient for 3 days, following a positive PCR test result. Within hours, a 67 year old man died at Enmore after being admitted there from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital the previous day. He too had a history of NCDs. Minister of Health and Wellness, Lt. Col. Hon Jeffrey Bostic, extended condolences to the mourning families. He also observed, “those who are paying attention to these matters would have noticed that whereas before, the…