VIEW HERE —— COVID-19 update and press conference – February 9, 2021. (PMO) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has disclosed that negotiations are being had with the Government of India to obtain a second batch of the Covishield (Oxford-AstraZeneca) vaccine. The first batch of 100,000 doses, which arrived on the island last evening, would provide […]
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Tuesday 9th February 2021 Grantley Adams International Airport . Watch “India’s gift of 100,000 COVID-19 vaccines arrived Barbados earlier today.” on YouTube —– BARBADOS & DOMINICA Receive Vaccines from INDIA this evening. OXFORD-ASTRAZENECA VACCINE ‘HIGHLY SAFE AND EFFECTIVE’Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has described the Indian-manufactured Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, also known as COVISHIELD, as a “highly […]
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FEB 9, 2021 There were 82 new positive cases of COVID-19 recorded on Monday, February, 8. These cases include positive results from January 29 to 31. Situations like this may occur occasionally as the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory continues to try to clear the backlog created due to the use of manual extraction in the […]
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Article first appeared in Barbados Today onFebruary 10, 2021 The COVID-19 death toll rose to 20 Tuesday as health authorities reported the deaths of a 67-year old man and a 53-year-old woman. The man died at the Enmore isolation unit and the woman died at the Harrison Point coronavirus hospital. Both patients had a history […]
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SHARON AUSTINGILL-MOORE —— BGIS COVID-19 update and press conference – February 8, 2021. (PMO) As Barbados prepares to roll out its vaccination programme, citizens are again being encouraged to take the vaccine. This time the encouragement is coming from Chief Mission Officer at Holy Cross Health, Washington, DC, Rev. Dr. Kirtley Yearwood, who has already […]
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An application is being developed to provide individuals with an electronic copy of their certificate of vaccination, upon administration of the COVID-19 vaccine. National Co-Coordinator of the COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign, Dr. Elizabeth Ferdinand, made the disclosure, as she outlined the vaccination process, during this evening’s press conference to update the country on roll out of […]
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FEB 07 – 2021 – SHARON AUSTIN – BGIS. COVID-19 Update and Press Conference (Feb. 7) Barbados – VIEW IT HERE……. Officials today put the brakes on four illegal parties, which were in breach of the Emergency Management (COVID-19) (Curfew) No. 3 Directive 2021. This disclosure came this evening from Coordinator of the COVID Communications […]
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COVID-19 update and press conference – February 4, 2021. (PMO) — VIEW THE PRESS BRIEFING HERE …….. The data being collected by student volunteers in “Operation Seek and Save” will be protected. Head of the Department of Management Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Dr. Dion Greenidge, gave this assurance […]
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by BGIS — FEB 5, 2021 The island recorded two deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday, February 4. They are a 93-year-old woman with co-morbidities who died at the Harrison Point Isolation Facility, and an 83-year-old man who passed away last night after being admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. As of Thursday, the number […]
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Article first appeared in Barbados Today online onFebruary 4, 2021 Residents have no reason to fear Operation Seek and Save, the ambitious Government initiative which rolled out earlier today and is intended to hit the majority of households over the next two weeks. Coordinator of the project Dr Dion Greenidge, who serves as Programme Coordinator of […]
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