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VI now awaiting 17 COVID-19 test results

- urged to strictly comply with lockdown measures
Another eight samples from the Virgin Islands have been sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in Trinidad to test for COVID-19, bringing the total awaiting test results to 17. Photo: Medical Device Network
According to Governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert, police will be patrolling and will enforce the curfew and can arrest for breach of the curfew if necessary. Photo: Facebook/File
According to Governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert, police will be patrolling and will enforce the curfew and can arrest for breach of the curfew if necessary. Photo: Facebook/File
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Another eight samples from the Virgin Islands have been sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in Trinidad to test for COVID-19, bringing the total awaiting test results to 17.

The Virgin Islands has 3 confirmed cases of the virus and has since been in curfew mode to prevent community spread.

“A further eight samples were sent today for testing, taking the total awaiting test results to 17,” Governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert said in a statement on Saturday, April 4, 2020 as the Virgin Islands proceeded on a 14-day lockdown.

Cabinet said it is basing its lockdown plans on scientific research that has identified how effective isolating can be in stopping the spread of this virus.

Police will be patrolling- Gov Jaspert

The public has been ordered to strictly observe the curfew as a result and warned that non-compliance can result in prosecution.

“This means that unless you are classified as an essential worker on duty as set out by our government you are now required to stay at home continuously. You should not go out, you should not be on the streets at any time during the day or night for the next 14 days. This means not leaving your house or yard for any reason unless it is an emergency.

“Police will be patrolling and will enforce the curfew and can arrest for breach of the curfew if necessary,” Governor Jaspert warned.

52 Responses to “VI now awaiting 17 COVID-19 test results”

  • The Game Plan (05/04/2020, 08:08) Like (101) Dislike (39) Reply
    Let me break it down in simpler terms for people to understand

    It was documented late 2017 that 5G would be rolling out in 2020 but there was and are conscious people who stood up and banned it in their states

    The Elites saw what was happening so they improvised and used a smoke screen which is the Coronavirus, they deliberately showed y’all these thing on tv shows and movies hence the name Television “Programming“ that’s why most people don’t believe in the mainstream news because their mostly use to promote an agenda but that’s beyond the point

    They first launched 5G in Wuhan and blamed it on a virus because something has to take the fall for it and it can’t be 5G, in the eyes of the elites 5G is needed in order to connect the world in many different ways

    Let me get a lil deeper because people don’t understand how this works, radiation blocks oxygen and without oxygen your immune system can’t function meaning you can’t even fight off a common flu so if you can’t fight of a flu your most likely gonna die

    So what’s happening is when people are exposed to the radiation they get sick hence why everyone who have been sick is from a country that has rolled out 5G whether the people know it or not (U.K, New York etc) and because radiation has flu like symptoms people believe it’s a sickness, but it’s actually radiation poisoning, with 5G you can up the power output to make it a weapon or you can keep it low so that it can be used discreetly example if you keep the frequency low you might kill different types of animals (birds, ducks, fishes etc) but if you pump it up humans will die

    Because they label this as a virus they placed fear into people’s hearts so that they can stay indoors because anyone that knows about 5G will NOT willingly accept it I’m not even gonna get started on the social distancing part of this agenda. Let me end it off by stating this staying inside plays well into their agenda because trust me their gonna crash the entire economy since there’s no trade and work being done and this will be the worst recession in history, think of it like the reset button... Please people do not be ignorant when it comes to 5G this is military grade equipment that will be next to schools hospitals etc the power will no longer be with the people after this has pass
    • Guest (05/04/2020, 09:18) Like (24) Dislike (45) Reply
      You are literally too stupid to insult.....smdh
    • True (05/04/2020, 10:52) Like (16) Dislike (30) Reply
      you can't argue with stupid
    • See (05/04/2020, 11:57) Like (5) Dislike (7) Reply
      What actually causes the fatalities with the virus is in fact the body's immune system flooding the lungs. Stop with the BS
    • At the game plan.. Hmmm.. My dream or vision (05/04/2020, 12:34) Like (4) Dislike (2) Reply
      There is definetely a wicked and devilish plan or Agenda that causing this.. I actually had this vision last night that this is an skam by the scientific community or the scientist to get money... check it out when HIV came on the scene they sy no cure... First bush presudent gave them a billion ..Clinton gave them a billion, the second bush gave them another billion, its aftrer the second bush threaten them that it time to come up with aonething, they found a xure, they knes the cure all along because they created the illness, Just to scam the government... Then they produce ebola Obaama gave them a billioon Ebola disappear.. Now they come with Carona virus and Trump aint giving them nothong.. nada.. This is a fight between trump and the science community or scientist.. they wnt another billion for research and Trump aint budging, They craated this , they no the cure, they need that billion for research.... Lol...a scientist salary is like a quarter million a year, they have to produce,...They need to find work... thats there plan of finding work... Cubs has the cure but those same scientist oppressing it.. they need that billion.... yea..WHAT NEXT... THATS WHY WE SHOULD JUST LIVE OUR LIVES BECAUSE THERE IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING ELSE VERY SOOB.. WE WILL EVENTUALLY DIE IF God dont step in.. For God to steo in we have done with all this lick down and curfew and fear and gave God a chance open ip the place let peopke live .. Let God proge that he is God cause its only God can save us but we have to let him.... I saw a of this in my aleep thus foreday morning....... Im sharing the vision.. ive done my duty...
    • Re the Game Plan (05/04/2020, 16:07) Like (10) Dislike (8) Reply
      What are you smoking?? There is no 5G in the Caribbean and definitely not the BVI. I am sure you think Elvis is alive on the moon and the earth is flat.
  • The One Percenters (05/04/2020, 08:09) Like (59) Dislike (11) Reply
    Imagine these Luciferians turning on the H.A.A.R.P machine and the 5G at the same time.... MASS MURDER
  • Reality! (05/04/2020, 08:12) Like (46) Dislike (20) Reply
    It will not be long before your rules begin to really annoy a large amount of that are complying to, in order to save the few. First you have a 5 day curfew, then a 3 day break so we can have a chaotic collection of supplies, then 14 days of nothing again. I understand this, but what you going to do when more cases come again after this 14 days? You going to lock us up again? Are you going to continue to lock us up again and again? This virus is bad, but nothing like how this Government and the world's fear mongering media portray it. I need o make money, I need to feed my family, I need to pay my bills, and I do not believe I am alone in this opinion! Sooner or later the 2 - 4 people out of every 100 that you are trying to save is going to really start to effect the other 96 - 98 strong and healthy you are sacrificing their futures for. You have systematically destroyed worldwide economies to save 2% to 4% of our population. The majority will only put of with this for so long before civil unrest becomes the next major hurdle you and your Government bullies will have to deal with. You believe in democracy, and you are elected accordingly, yet the majority must lose all to save the few. Keep measures in place for our borders, but for the love of God open up our internal economy and let us go back to work, give our businesses a fighting chance, or at day's end you will have possibly saved a few and the new dawn will open all of us up to nothing. No jobs, no tax base, no nothing, then you will have to figure out what you must do, how you pay your Government payroll, and see whether anyone gives a damn about all this when elections come in a couple years and the y make a decision on the decimated economy and no money for the average family, while you tout your Corona virus decisions and how you saved a few!!!!!!

    Yes, these are callous thoughts, and I am sure many will feel so, but think on it for a second and see whether it resonates with the common person!
    • True (05/04/2020, 10:54) Like (10) Dislike (8) Reply
      then go and cuddle and care for someone with the virus lets see your numbers stand up
    • @ reality (05/04/2020, 11:35) Like (14) Dislike (1) Reply
      It all boils down to can the people use common sense and not be mingling together in groups, chilling out on the block/bars, drinking/smoking with friends, paying dominoes/ball, forming the fool in a pack on scooters, standing less than 3 - 6 feet apart ...I could go on but this is just what was seen during the days allowed to grocery shop and visit the banks.

      We would like to get back to work but people are worse than the virus itself by delaying this and endangering each other.

    • @reality (05/04/2020, 12:30) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
      We going back to the days of our grand and great grandparents for those of us who are 50+ and nothing wrong with that! Fishing, farming and rearing cattle, hogs, fowl, for then we will have fish, beef, pork eggs milk chicken and those not from here or who love the financial services system will go back home. In those days the people was contented.

      And the banks will have to leave us with those large houses and write off their worthless loans. Seems like something now turn upon the rich! Who heard the poor man crying? No one! As soon as the rich pockets just getting a dent they bawling.
  • WOWW (05/04/2020, 08:20) Like (41) Dislike (2) Reply
    It’s been a while now what is the update with the 3 confirmed cases? How are those individuals doing we need some information Hon Malone tired of the speeches about washing hands we need to know what’s really going on.
    • LCS (05/04/2020, 23:30) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      Agreed, 14 days virus contagion got to be over by now. Are they OK? We need information about this.
  • I understand now (05/04/2020, 08:20) Like (54) Dislike (5) Reply
    "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."
  • tretretrete (05/04/2020, 08:21) Like (18) Dislike (4) Reply
    After the 14 days another lockdown coming again things not getting better well at least for a while
    • zagred smith (05/04/2020, 19:58) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      No way buddy people need to work
    • @hmmm (06/04/2020, 00:15) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      Of course more 14 days lockdown ahead
      After they made this stupid move allowing and also defeating the purpose we sacrificed for last lockdown
      No coming out Period not even garbage but Thursday morning to Darius at night virus free
      I have an idea what it is they trying to accomplish here
  • The Recession Is Coming (05/04/2020, 08:22) Like (69) Dislike (3) Reply
    Wait until the dollar folds and the supply trucks stops. Then we'll have the real pandemic.
  • gee (05/04/2020, 08:24) Like (30) Dislike (33) Reply
    Everyone just need to stay indoors
    • @ gee (05/04/2020, 09:12) Like (31) Dislike (2) Reply
      but more than half this territory were OUTDOORS over the past 3 days(Everyone just need to stay indoors?).....so we can only come OUTDOOR when allowed by the governor. @ gee; I am sure you or members of your family were outdoors as well
    • @gee (05/04/2020, 15:26) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
      Indoors does not mean you have to be under your roof.

      You can go out in your yard.
  • Help (05/04/2020, 08:43) Like (16) Dislike (1) Reply
    for the past 3 days there were large gatherings
  • Keep in my mind (05/04/2020, 08:46) Like (54) Dislike (5) Reply
    This virus has killed 0.0006% of the earth’s population... Hopefully y’all can lock us back down again when the flu season comes back around

    -Keep This Same Energy
  • how come (05/04/2020, 09:07) Like (6) Dislike (8) Reply
    we are no longer hearing from those people that we voted for on Election Day. suddenly the representatives from the United Kingdom have taken over the Rules and regulations of the Overseas Territory any time we have more cases from those tested the governor and his affiliates will not allow us to come outside maybe for 30 days.
  • NezRez (05/04/2020, 09:15) Like (52) Dislike (11) Reply
    NO 5G Allowed in the BVI!!!! Our Government know of the dangers, and if they allow it, that means they have been paid BIG money and will kill off all of their families for pocket change. The Premier can stop it from entering, just like they stop big franchises from coming in, because they know it would put all of us out of business. This 5G will KILL US and will NOT be accepted!!!!!!!
  • Lord (05/04/2020, 09:16) Like (10) Dislike (0) Reply
    They staying to long yo update with those results.. its 5 days now sice they came on air with the last result.
  • Why the Governor (05/04/2020, 09:32) Like (1) Dislike (6) Reply
    Why is the Governor and not the Minister of Health reporting this.
  • Stop It (05/04/2020, 10:15) Like (20) Dislike (6) Reply
    Stop trying to wake these people up about 5G just let them die, because they not hearing y’all
    • @y’all 5G Obsessed (05/04/2020, 11:06) Like (19) Dislike (4) Reply
      Geez, we don’t even have 4G in the BVI.
      Quit your “the sky is falling! the sky is falling!” ranting and do something for the common good. “Get in the house!!”, as mothers in Brooklyn used to say.
    • Because (05/04/2020, 12:14) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
      the governor is now in charge or those we voted for hidings behind his coattail....we went for many GIS Facebook updates; down to very few & just instructions The White House
  • Concerned (05/04/2020, 11:19) Like (7) Dislike (1) Reply
    Why 3 and 4 G weren't killing people? What's the big difference between those and 5G?
    And what's your solution to the problem?
    Roll back 5G and we will be good again?
  • 5G (05/04/2020, 11:20) Like (0) Dislike (6) Reply
    Will kill the weak and keep the strong. The future is reserved for those who can best adapt to changes in environment whether man made or natural. BRING IT ON! Our genes will suffer in the beginning but adaptations will make them stronger like scarred tissue and our children will be immune. 5g is a necessary evil that will destroy the old world but make way for the new world. There will be newly adapted insects, birds and fish etc....... yall need to see the bigger picture. There is a season for life, so there MUST be a season for death.
  • Here's Why 5G and Coronavirus are Not Connected (05/04/2020, 11:49) Like (4) Dislike (9) Reply
    Click for full article

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/2873731001

    What does the science say?

    In the latest scientific study, from the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection – an organization that the WHO specifically refers to on its website with regard to overall RF frequency-related health matters – they concluded that health-related concerns for 5G overall are not a threat.

    Specifically, they pointed out that if the signal levels being generated remain below their suggested settings, which all current devices and networks do, that public health impacts are not a concern. In fact, tests have shown that some networks in the UK function at less than 1% of the organization’s recommended levels.

    Interestingly, there were absolutely no concerns mentioned for sub-6 GHz 5G signals in the ICNIRP report.

    The only additions that were made in the 2020 version of the report over the original 1998 version were comments about exposure to frequencies above 6 GHz, including millimeter wave. Even here, however, the revisions merely suggest limiting long-term exposure to high-strength signals in these upper frequencies.

    How 5G waves work

    The physics of millimeter wave signals inherently limits the distance they can travel before they dissipate into “nothingness” (for more on the details of how 5G works see “5G could change everything. Here’s what you need to know before you buy into the tech”).

    That’s why, for example, the coverage maps for millimeter wave-based 5G service, that carriers like Verizon have, are so limited. Instead of a single cell tower providing miles and miles of signal coverage as you can with sub-6 GHz signals, mmWave requires small cell towers roughly every block and, oh yeah, those signals can’t pass through walls into buildings.

    The bottom line is, short of swallowing or embedding a 5G mmWave transmitter into your body and letting it run for a long time, you’re safe.






  • run (05/04/2020, 12:03) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
    check out "project loon". i think it's interesting
  • Only God can save us (05/04/2020, 12:49) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
    We have to break away fron the pack.and live our lives.. our leaders Be courageous be faithful. Give God a chance.. Lets live our lives , be cautious, be careful burt not fearful.. After this is going be something ekse.... Are we going to be in fear and lock down everytime the devil shows up... We hve to be rebels wifh s cause a righteous cause...Give the chnce to fight with us.. to protect us... or we will be forever running and hidinig and living in fear....This is an attack war againsf our freedom our God.. IN a war peopke will die but the spirit to fight will save generations to come ...
  • Balsam Ghut Inmate (05/04/2020, 14:13) Like (3) Dislike (8) Reply
    People of the VI, how does it feel to be under lockdown - can’t go anywhere? Y’all houses just like the cells we have up here. In a house all day 24 hours a day for 14 days straight 336 hours. Boy, that’s like a year, no? Then after that another 14 days on a 24 hour round the clock lockdown will start.
    • @ Supposed Balsam Ghut Inmate (05/04/2020, 15:35) Like (8) Dislike (0) Reply
      The difference is we don’t have a conviction on our record, can go outside in our yards any hour of the day and night, watch television, take a bath, cook our preferred meal whenever we feel, sleep on a decent bed, amongst other things people take for granted but you would hope people take the time to see if this feels like prison to them that they would not commit any crimes that would send them to prison.

    • zagred smith (05/04/2020, 20:01) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      I call b.s you ain't up balo
  • yesman (05/04/2020, 15:16) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    We are so lazy, couldn't bet 9 results in a week time , less than a 3rd world country
  • um (05/04/2020, 16:13) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    So no comments saying they were happy with this then...literally the sick and vunerable stay home and the rest Carey on as usual because you know what, as soon as we open our borders up again we are going to get cases...let the community build some immunity
  • Test result (05/04/2020, 16:48) Like (10) Dislike (1) Reply
    One question. How long does it take for Covid 19 test results to come back? Kinda not making sense. When the curfew started over a week ago there were 9 tests awaiting results. Did they go by LIAT and they abandoned the flight
  • Windy (05/04/2020, 18:15) Like (2) Dislike (5) Reply
    So if a positive result comes back does that mean we start over ? I don’t think so. If you can’t educate people of social distancing, they’re that stupid, send them back where they came from
    • voiceofthevoiceless (05/04/2020, 19:04) Like (9) Dislike (0) Reply
      @ Windy
      What if they came from here where do we send them?
    • @windy (05/04/2020, 20:35) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      In that case a lot of them would be sent right back in their house in the BVI where there born
  • Agenda 2020 (05/04/2020, 22:55) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
    Install flight radar and see Google s floating cell towers in the stratosphere and look up PROJECT LOON. 2017 FLOW was ready to install 5g after being purchased by liberty Global, Antiguan was to be the hub the launch of the first 5g in the Caribbean but Irma came. Article where they already been conducted testing http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20170723/cable-wireless-testing-5g-mobile-speeds. Late 2017 Flow imported some 5g equipment to implement after the hurricane but was not granted permission by the TRC I guess there was also politics surrounding that decision eh em( CCT). While we slept at night and soldiers were roaming and burning the midnight oil God knows if they secretly installed some of those towers just a hunch. They say trust the CDC, trust WHO , trust this country and that country. They re all guilty of pass atrocities of experiments performed on their own citizens , from injecting syphilis in 600 negro males over a period of 40 years to see what would happen left untreated. Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital..In 1950, the U.S. Navy, in a simulated biological warfare attack, sprayed San Francisco with large quantities of bacterial pathogens (Serratia marcescens), which at the time were considered harmless. Many citizens developed pneumonia as a result, and at least one person died. There is a long list of documented experiments from all over the world, and some of these projects have just been tweaked to perfection and over the years are being used. Humanity has been one big experiment from day one and it will continue if there isn't a global revolution to stop the elites in their tracks....why should they have the right who lives and who dies.
  • @windy (06/04/2020, 00:39) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply

    @windy youre a bat.... whole bat.

  • :) (06/04/2020, 00:47) Like (1) Dislike (3) Reply
    To the fools talking about 5G, that theory is stupid. Let's say 5G is causing health issues. Someone mentioned it's the radiation from 5G that is causing the illness. First of all the health issues caused by radiation is not runny nose and shortness of breath. Radiation causes cancer, abnormalities or you can get radiation poisoning (ARS). You can google Chernobyl or Hiroshima to see what the effects of radiation based health issues would look like. Radiation poisoning is not contagious so how can infected persons spread the disease to others if it was caused by 5G. If radiation from 5G was the cause of the problem we would have had a worse virus after the US bombed Japan and after Chernobyl. The radiation from Nuclear bombs or reactors is like a billion times worse than simple mere cellular technology. Y'all need to stop following everything you read on the internet. People often make up wild conspiracy theories to cause chaos. The people that fall these sort of silliness are the same ones that forward those malware loaded chain messages to 20 of their Whatsapp friends to prevent Whatapp from deleting their account.
  • US RN / from the BVI (06/04/2020, 07:11) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    My heart hurts when I think on what I am seeing out here , happen to the BVI . In the states and all around the world the fatalities we are seeing might just seem like numbers or statistics but if it should surely happen to the BVI those numbers and statistics are going to be names, people we know , or family , peoples we went school with . In a nation where everybody and their mother is related I don’t know how ahyo isn’t sh$$ting bricks . If we are here in the mainland suffering like this what the hell is going to happen to our little islands who is going to save us who is going to send ventilators and PPE’s for us while the whole world is in need for the same exact thing. We don’t ever take things serious until it is in our back door or in our living room.. Stop and think how long it take to have a funeral in the BVI after a person is dead no imagine that we had 800 people died in one day, Or even in a month we still wouldn’t be able to handle that large number


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