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'We have capacity to vaccinate @ least 9000 more people'- Premier Fahie
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- “We have the capacity to vaccinate at least 9000 more people. I repeat, we have the capacity to vaccinate at least 9000 more people,” Premier and Minister of Finance Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) stated as he made an appeal to the territory to get vaccinated for the sake of its health and economy.
VI ‘dead in the water’ if faced with another lockdown– Skelton-Cline
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – With the Virgin Islands (VI) currently at 9 active COVID-19 cases and aggressive contact tracing on the way following a possible super-spreader event, local health authorities have called on citizens to voluntary vaccinate against the virus.
Quarantine could be lifted for vaccinated persons entering VI- Hon Malone
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Minister for Health and Social Development, Hon Carvin Malone (AL) has indicated that the Virgin Islands (VI) could soon remove the quarantine requirements for persons entering the territory once a majority of the territory is vaccinated.
Economic vaccinations
Thomas C. Famous
In March of 2020, persons in the Caribbean region experienced the last week of life as we knew it.
USVI sets 50,000 vaccination goal
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- On the US mainland, some scholars are confident that the country will achieve Covid-19 herd immunity by April, a projection that would end the pandemic, by some estimates, rather early. Particularly, Johns Hopkins professor Martin Makary wrote in a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed that the US will achieve the feat, pointing to a steep 77 percent decline in cases in the past six weeks.