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Premier & Deputy Premier test COVID-19 positive

-both expected to remain in isolation for 10 days
As the millions of people celebrate Christmas around the world and in the Virgin Islands, Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has announced that himself along with Deputy Premier, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley have both tested positive for COVID-19. Photo: GIS/File
The Premier said that being fully vaccinated, and having recently taken the booster shot, it has contributed to his immune system being in the best possible position to
The Premier said that being fully vaccinated, and having recently taken the booster shot, it has contributed to his immune system being in the best possible position to "fight off" the virus and any possible negative effects, thereby giving him the best chance for a full and fast recovery. Photo: Internet Source
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – As the millions of people celebrate Christmas around the world and in the Virgin Islands, Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has announced that himself along with Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) have both tested positive for COVID-19.

“During the early part of this afternoon, I was informed by the Health Officials for the need to have me tested as a result of me being in close contact with someone who had recently tested positive for Covid-19. As a result, late this afternoon, 24 December 2021, I was tested for COVID-19 and the results returned as positive,” Hon Fahie said in a statement released last evening, Christmas eve 2021.

“The testing was consistent with the established protocols where our Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr. the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley, recently tested positive for COVID-19 and all his listed recent contacts – of which I was one – required to also be tested.”

All recent contacts tested - Premier 

He said following Health protocols and in an effort to assist with contact tracing, all his recent contacts were reported to the Health Officials.

“My entire family was also tested but all results received thus far are negative. Due to the aforementioned results, I am following the instructions of the Health Professionals to isolate for ten days.”

The Premier said that being fully vaccinated, and having recently taken the booster shot, it has contributed to his immune system being in the best possible position to "fight off" the virus and any possible negative effects thereby giving him the best chance for a full and fast recovery. 

“I want the public, from Districts One to Nine, to know that I am in good spirits. I am feeling as normal as can be, and I continue to perform my duties and responsibilities as Premier remotely.”

Premier Fahie also reported that Deputy Premier Wheatley is also feeling strong and is also expected to have a full recovery.

56 Responses to “Premier & Deputy Premier test COVID-19 positive”

  • Sam (25/12/2021, 10:06) Like (19) Dislike (15) Reply
    penn & turnbull to act
    • Welsa (25/12/2021, 10:49) Like (5) Dislike (4) Reply
      You plan to use this good good Christmas Day to give no ends a trouble welsa
    • @ sam (25/12/2021, 20:50) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
      In your dreams Marlon even can’t run his little house must less a country
  • Purebloods (25/12/2021, 10:07) Like (46) Dislike (24) Reply
    Both vaccinated for COVID-19 and still get his... is the vaccine even effective?
    • WHAT!!! (25/12/2021, 10:24) Like (31) Dislike (44) Reply
      “Purebloods”
      Research what you are talking about before posting ignorance.
      Yes even though you have had the vaccine you can still get Covid BUT the vaccine prevents you from dying from it.
      • @What!! (25/12/2021, 11:55) Like (18) Dislike (8) Reply
        Can that be proven because no one can confirm that because you can’t be vaccinated and unvaxx at the same time to tell what would happen to that person when they contract that flu. I haven’t died and no one I know who got it has died either.
      • Forbidden Truth (25/12/2021, 15:52) Like (5) Dislike (7) Reply
        @WHAT. ..really!!!. You must be some kind of a jack donkey.
      • Third Eye (25/12/2021, 16:34) Like (19) Dislike (4) Reply
        # WHAT!! You are so wrong Purebloods is correct How come they be are tested positive being fully vaccinated and boostered. That sounds very suspect be and full of lies. If one can still catch COVID even if they are vaccinated and boostered that means they can stii die from it. Why are we letting these lying Politicians fool us. Didn't our grandparents told us, once one can fool the blind and blind the fool they will always take us for fools. Malcolm X said a similar statement'' If we don't stand for something we will fall for anything"' Wake up people put your trust in the Most High, not man. The Almighty Creator will never deceive you but Man will deceive, confuse, mislead, corrupt and destroy you. That's a fact
      • Linda (26/12/2021, 00:26) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
        @ WHAT!!! You are so very incorrect! You are posting ignorance yourself. The vaccine does not prevent you from dying! Look at all of the vaccinated who died. SIMP.
    • Ms. Santa (25/12/2021, 11:08) Like (40) Dislike (17) Reply
      Well chicken has come home to roost. All this hoopla about vaccination, how could this be after taking 2 jabs plus booster and now telling me these men are positive for the same thing they vaccinate against?? Then what is the use of the vaccine?
      Hoping the rest of the cabinet is not positive too. Now we know, Now we believe that this vaccine is fake and a deception.
      Heaven help us All!!!!
      • Jack Sprat (25/12/2021, 13:10) Like (21) Dislike (6) Reply
        @ Ms. Santa l totally agree with you. The lies, the lies when is it going to stop? Mr. Premier you claim to be a Godly man , at least that's what you project before and after every of your speeches. Yet there you are with the lies. Is a few dirty blood dollars more important than the Almighty Creator? You are contradicting yourself. This is just another trick to make people take the venom. Be careful Nasty GREEDY politicians you are not greater or more powerful than the Almighty Creator, when he releases his energy on you there will be no place for you to run and hide. Whoa STOP it.
      • Ms Santa (26/12/2021, 07:27) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        Please return to the North Pole. Your fake information is a gift nobody wants. Please have the elfs fix your information machine.
    • Vaccine works (25/12/2021, 11:31) Like (12) Dislike (33) Reply
      @Purebloods. Without vaccination, a man of his stature could be at risk.
      • @Vaccine works (25/12/2021, 11:56) Like (18) Dislike (3) Reply
        That’s your opinion that’s not proof
      • @ Vaccine works (25/12/2021, 12:14) Like (2) Dislike (5) Reply
        and would likely suffer badly and die
        • Setapart (25/12/2021, 16:14) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
          ELOHIM MOST HIGH REBUKE YOU SATAN IN JESUS NAME.
        • Vaccine works (25/12/2021, 16:43) Like (3) Dislike (6) Reply
          Okay, my attempt at subtlety escaped you buffoons. I'll be clear: he verrrry fat. Big risk factor for severe illness and death.
    • @Purebloods (25/12/2021, 11:53) Like (10) Dislike (0) Reply
      More like what’s the point of the booster ? Is it boosting your chances to get sick lmao
      • Really (26/12/2021, 10:35) Like (31) Dislike (0) Reply
        The booster is to boost the nanobots in their body but they are so sleep it's like their died
    • @Purebloods (25/12/2021, 11:56) Like (7) Dislike (21) Reply
      The vaccine is effective. It is the ones that is not vaccinated and is not filling protocols is putting the vaccinated at risk.IE…. Refusing to wear a mask, not social distancing and not keeping their hands clean. At this point, all businesses should not allow anyone in their place of business without a mask and I am not talking about pulling your tee shirts up over your nose or wearing a bandana over your face. Another thing is when you accept loose change or bills, always clean your hands because money is dirty.
      • Setapart (25/12/2021, 16:17) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
        You spirit of division from pit of hell ELOHIM MOST HIGH REBUKE YOU IN JESUS NAME.
    • booster (25/12/2021, 13:39) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
      Premier got Pfizer booster one week ago I think
    • Linda (26/12/2021, 00:23) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
      @ Purebloods, they are also standing side by side, no distancing, and not wearing masks. What in the hell do they expect? Being a politician does not mean they cannot catch it. They themselves are not following safety rules. SMH
  • bvibuzz (25/12/2021, 10:13) Like (7) Dislike (8) Reply
    Get well soon before Smurf gets any crazy ideas
  • Purebloods II (25/12/2021, 10:19) Like (22) Dislike (3) Reply
    What happened to the Booster shots they just take. ?
  • super spreaders (25/12/2021, 10:24) Like (11) Dislike (3) Reply
    With batman and robin out I wonder who is in charge?
  • omg (25/12/2021, 10:24) Like (20) Dislike (5) Reply
    DAH BOOSTER NAH WUK TAL
  • ham and turkey (25/12/2021, 10:25) Like (12) Dislike (1) Reply
    Spreading joy for xmas or covid19?
  • SMH (25/12/2021, 10:27) Like (53) Dislike (5) Reply
    As soon as he get the booster shot, he test positive? Setta clowns meson.
    • Jack and Jill. (25/12/2021, 13:16) Like (20) Dislike (4) Reply
      @ SMH exactly, set of liars and clowns exactly. Just to fatten their pockets with blood money. Mr. Wheatley supposed to be a convious Afrocentric brethren, yet he is selling us out cheap for a few dirty blood dollars, which Will have no value in a couple of years. Fire burn you sell out. You need to do the walk of shame . Idiot
  • Heckler (25/12/2021, 10:28) Like (19) Dislike (3) Reply
    The queen had cancelled her annual christmas party but our premier kept his, see the results now?
  • Hmmmm (25/12/2021, 10:35) Like (22) Dislike (6) Reply
    after getting booster shot tested positive for covid how ironic is that hmmm truly a lot of things don't add up with the whole vaccine and booster things
  • That goes to show (25/12/2021, 10:39) Like (24) Dislike (0) Reply
    No one is immune from COVID. Wishing them and everyone that is affected by COVID the best.
  • yea (25/12/2021, 11:04) Like (43) Dislike (6) Reply
    Its the Pfizer shots. They literally cause your body to produce covid spike proteins, which cause great damage to all bodily systems. If your immune system is not strong enough to exterminate the vaccinated cells, auto immune diseases are inevitable.
    • how? (25/12/2021, 13:25) Like (6) Dislike (21) Reply
      How is this news site allowing these ridiculous false comments. If people don’t take the shot because they believe what you are allowing and get sick it is on you.
    • @yea (26/12/2021, 07:29) Like (1) Dislike (16) Reply
      Another PhD in Science from FaceBook university. Or, can you direct us a credible source for your info?
  • Crs (25/12/2021, 11:18) Like (22) Dislike (0) Reply
    You would never even know you were sick if you didn’t test for it.
    • cycle (27/12/2021, 05:13) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
      Exactly. You could have had the virus before you got the vaccine. Most of us and our children had to take vaccines before we could go to school, right? Why? Well, for one: To protect us from getting and/or spreading smallpox, TB, polio, etc.

      So, people who don’t want the vaccine; don’t take it. At this point, I doubt anybody cares. However, when government, employers, airlines, etc. say we cannot work or travel if we’re unvaccinated, then what? Quit our jobs? Home school our children?
      The world is a cycle sang Ritchie Spice
  • musa (25/12/2021, 11:31) Like (6) Dislike (8) Reply
    We all need to keep our leaders in our prayers
  • I expect (25/12/2021, 11:44) Like (1) Dislike (5) Reply
    A semi lockdown and curfew coming soon. In America, the cases is rising again.
  • Perry Mendelbury (25/12/2021, 12:06) Like (2) Dislike (3) Reply
    WE ARE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET!!
  • Native Senior Citizen of the BVI. (25/12/2021, 12:17) Like (6) Dislike (1) Reply
    If it is true that the Premier and Dep. Premier test Breaking news! A report says that both the Premier, and Dep. Premier tested positive for the Covid-19 virus. How then can they keep us safe when they themselves can't keep themselves safe? We the people need evidence of proof. However, if this report is true, I hope that they both, and others, Will get well soon.
    They tell us to follow protocol, but they don't. Let us follow protocol so that they will follow us in following protocol.
    • @ native senior citizens (26/12/2021, 12:11) Like (1) Dislike (3) Reply
      typical negro; always pointing fingers at someone else BUT your are directly responsible for your own standards of living

      vaccine will not prevent you from illness but could assist you with recovery

      try wake up and live
  • health over wealth (25/12/2021, 13:16) Like (14) Dislike (0) Reply
    ALL THOSE FOLKS WHO ATTENEDED THE PREMIER'S PARTY AND WHO WERE ON THE MUSICAL TRUCK SHOULD ALL BE IN MANDATORY ISOLATION
  • Hodgie (25/12/2021, 13:26) Like (10) Dislike (16) Reply
    Anti-vaxers are so illiterate. Read their comments. Has WHO, CDC or any other health organization ever said vaccines will prevent anyone from contracting or spreading the Covid virus. Lost two of brothers who were anti-vaxers to Covid-19. They even told me nothing name Covid. Too late is the call.
  • After 3 shots.. (25/12/2021, 13:29) Like (26) Dislike (2) Reply
    Hope they demanded a retest...some of those test kits are already programme to produce positive results all in the name of getting numbers up keeping us in fear promoting vaccine and making money...
    • Hey after 3 shots… (26/12/2021, 07:31) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      Which tests? Made by whom? What evidence is there they are in the territory?Who is using them?
  • After the 4th shot (25/12/2021, 14:04) Like (26) Dislike (3) Reply
    You won’t catch Covid Foy. And to see you on another news site with a child in your lap is rediculous I wonder how many children you give it to and they give to parents. You like too much photo. Always hugging and shaking hands in a photo. Sickening for a leader. And you sound so stupid praising the vaccines for not getting you very sick. Of the 140 plus and counting that didn’t take the vaccines how many are seriously sick tell us. Set ah clowns
  • God is not mocked (25/12/2021, 14:52) Like (4) Dislike (5) Reply
    So much for Premier Albert’s Christmas Day campaigning. I do however agree that given his size, it may have been in his best interest to take the booster.
  • BRRAKING NEWS (25/12/2021, 15:00) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
    What ever happen to breaking news ? is that reserved for boris ?
  • Tongue Fu (25/12/2021, 20:23) Like (14) Dislike (0) Reply
    Let me start off by wishing our two Leaders a speedy recovery from the illness.

    First, there is a lot of hypocrisy going on from our Leaders as they are instructing everyone to limit gatherings or if gathering adhere to the safety protocols but they are not doing the same. Boris did the same last year and now Premier and his Deputy. Do as I say not as I do.

    Secondly no vaccine or booster can prevent infection and subsequent transmission. Neither can they prevent you from dying. However they can decrease your chance of hospitalization although we are seeing more and more vaccinated persons ending up in hospitals. Maybe due to waning of the antibodies or virus evasion but the reality is that you cannot 100% rely on the vaccine or booster. Your innate immune system must be built up to deal with this as the Vaccines are far from foolproof. A mater of fact they are now saying that the antibodies from the boosters decline to 30 % after 3 months so why some places like Israel on their 4th shot. WHO has warned against this as they are hoarding precious resources.

    Thirdly where are the treatment plans? Why are we not hearing about treatments for those who get hospitalized? Early treatments to prevent hospitalization? Yes they are treatments that have proven effective against covid.

    Fourthly we cannot trust their information as they lack consistency. In July they were quick to announce that all the persons who were hospitalized were unvaccinated. Now they have stopped doing that so why?

    Finally now that we know that the vaccine does not prevent infection and transmission why is it that many are still losing their jobs over the jab? Why is it that the unvaccinated alone continue to be subjected to bans and quarantine requirements?

  • @Tongue Fu (26/12/2021, 07:37) Like (1) Dislike (8) Reply
    The unvaxx are a reservoir of unmitigated growth for the virus, allowing ample opportunity for virus to mutate into vaxx resistant versions making everyone more vulnerable. Vaxxing everyone substantially suppresses virus growth. Think of it this way: you may have the right to burn your own house down to the ground but you don’t have the right to burn the country to ashes.
    • Tongue Fu (26/12/2021, 11:16) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
      @@Tonguefu
      Once viruses infect they will continue to mutate sometimes into less transmissible and less deadly versions. Another way is if the infected person is immune compromised and the infection lingers for a while that allows the virus to develop further mutations before it is passed on to another person. There is also the theory of vaccine evasion as the vaccines place pressure on the virus causing it to mutate.

      The bottom line is that these vaccines do not PREVENT infection or transmission so there is no way they can PREVENT variants.
  • jokers (26/12/2021, 09:35) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
    I KNOW YOU ALL BOTH HAVE YOUR LAYER OF PROTECTION .SO STAY UP AND POSITIVE YOU BOTH, AND KEEP WORKING.
    FROM WITHIN. WE LOVE THE VIP ALL THE WAY
  • ONE WEEK LATER (26/12/2021, 12:04) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
    On December 18th I commented under the caption Dead Man Walking " Andrew stop playing with your life." The point is they are injecting you with the virus. This is why vaccinated persons spread the virus like positive ones. When you trust in their deceit your mind causes your defeat. Will the real Slim Shady please stand up.


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