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February 16, 2023

13 Covid cases reported this year

As of Friday, three patients had been admitted to the hospital to be treated for Covid-19 out of the 13 people who have tested positive this year, according to Health …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
December 23, 2022

EDITORIAL: The highs, lows and lessons of 2022

An optimistic look back on 2022 might conjure a year-end image of the Virgin Islands as a phoenix preparing to rise from the ashes of its former self. And after …

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by The BVI Beacon
December 6, 2022

930 take part in health training

Ahead of the holiday season, the Virgin Islands is preparing to join a regional programme that aims to set standards for public health management in the tourism sector across the …

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by Dana Kampa
December 1, 2022

Tourism booms as Covid ebbs

The tourism season started barely two weeks ago, but business is already booming at Foxy’s Tamarind Bar on Jost Van Dyke. “I don’t think we’ve ever seen a season like …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
October 28, 2022

Government mask policy to end November 1

Starting on Nov. 1, public officers will no longer be required to wear masks in offices, Deputy Governor David Archer announced last Thursday. Cabinet lifted the legal requirement to wear …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
September 2, 2022

Virgin Islands had 23 Covid cases as of Monday

As of Monday, there were 23 active Covid-19 cases known in the territory, according to a government dashboard released that day. Before that, government said in its most recent update …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
August 26, 2022

Virgin Islands to host vaccine drive

A vaccination drive will be held on Saturday and Sunday and again next weekend at the Dr. D. Orlando Smith Hospital, the BVI Health Services Authority announced on Friday. “The …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
July 22, 2022

Virgin Islands drops entry test requirement

Travellers arriving in the territory are no longer required to present a negative Covid-19 test result to enter the Virgin Islands, government announced. The entry test requirement was in place …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
June 22, 2022

Mask mandate extended in public offices, schools

Less than a week after Cabinet lifted the territory’s indoor mask mandate, government announced that the requirement would be reinstated for public offices and schools. “For the next three to …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
June 16, 2022

Masks no longer required indoors

As of yesterday, people in the territory are no longer required to wear masks indoors or apply through the travel portal to enter the territory, Health and Social Development Minister …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
June 10, 2022

Another Covid death recorded

The territory has recorded another Covid-19-related death, according to the government’s latest Covid-19 dashboard update issued last Thursday. As of that day, the death toll from the pandemic was 63, …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
June 6, 2022

Pier park grants $1.6m in rent concessions

More than $1.6 million in rent concessions were granted to about 70 tenants at the Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park between April 2020 and February 2021 to offset their …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK
June 2, 2022

Covid cases still dropping

The number of active Covid-19 cases in the territory continues to drop, according to the latest numbers published by government. As of Friday, there were 111 active cases, down from …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
May 27, 2022

Tourism numbers continue to climb

Overnight tourist arrivals in the first two months of 2022 soared in comparison to the same period in 2021, with the 26,225 visitors representing the Virgin Islands’ slow climb to …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK
May 26, 2022

Covid cases down a little

The number of known active Covid-19 cases in the territory dropped from 155 on May 13 to 132 last Thursday, according to the most recent numbers published on the government’s …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
May 20, 2022

Covid cases climb to 155

Active Covid-19 cases continued to rise from subvariants of omicron in recent days, but Virgin Islands officials remained optimistic, saying that most of the new cases are mild and herd …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
May 6, 2022

Active Covid cases hit 103 last week

There were 103 active Covid-19 cases throughout the territory as of last Thursday, according to the government’s most recent update. Numbers from the Covid-19 dashboard released that day show that …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
April 28, 2022

Covid-19 cases spike to 95

After more than four weeks with fewer than 20 active Covid-19 cases reported in the territory, government announced April 21 that there were 95 active cases — up from 19 …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
April 22, 2022

Virgin Islands government lifts outdoor mask mandate

The day before the Easter weekend, government eased its Covid-19 protocols, removing the requirement to wear masks outdoors and lifting certain social distancing rules. Also under the relaxed regime, no …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
April 15, 2022

Covid-19 cases up to 19

As of last Thursday, the territory had 19 known active Covid-19 cases, all of which were found on Tortola. Of those, four were found through entry screening on day seven, …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
April 8, 2022

Covid cases down to 14 as of Friday

As of Friday, there were 14 known Covid-19 cases in the territory, according to government’s most recent Covid-19 dashboard. The number marks a slight decrease since the previous report, when …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
April 1, 2022

Restrictions remain as Covid eases

Government’s most recent Covid-19 update on March 23 reported a total of 16 active cases in the territory with no one hospitalised. The number was up slightly from March 18, …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
March 17, 2022

Covid cases drop to 13 on Friday

The number of active Covid-19 cases in the territory dropped to 13 as of Friday, according to numbers published that day by government’s Covid-19 dashboard. Eleven of the cases were …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
March 10, 2022

Covid cases drop to 23

Government reported 23 active cases of Covid-19 in its most re- cent update on March 2, marking a record low for the year as the world nears the second anniversary …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
February 24, 2022

Vaccine now available for kids ages 5 to 11

As Covid-19 cases fall rapidly since the omicron spike that started in December, a shipment of 500 paediatric doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is now available for ages 5 to …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED

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