BY | FEB 13, 2021 | GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS The Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory reported 114 positive cases of COVID-19, which include results from samples collected between January 29 and February 12, 2021. With the appropriate reagent now in place, the laboratory is in the process of clearing the backlog created due to the temporary use of […]
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PURITY Bakeries was from early today undergoing a massive Covid 19 testing of its Staff with two medical tents set up on its property and manned with a Medical team to effect the testing. This as a result of three employees being tested positive for COVID-19, prompting the company to close operations today. In a […]
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Governor General Dame Sandra Mason received her first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine today – Thursday FEB 11, 2021Public health officials from the Maurice Byer Polyclinic were on hand to brief the Governor General and to administer the vaccine. (C. Pitt/BGIS) Governor General Dame Sandra Mason received the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in front […]
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VIEW IT HERE …… COVID-19 update and press conference – February 10, 2021. (PMO) Government will continue to go up against large and developed countries in its quest to secure additional COVID-19 vaccines for the people of Barbados. Chair of the COVID-19 Health Communications Team, Ambassador Elizabeth Thompson gave this assurance this evening, as the […]
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VIEW IT HERE ……..COVID-19 update and press conference – February 10, 2021. (PMO) Governor General Dame Sandra Mason will publicly take the Oxford- AstraZeneca vaccine. This disclosure came today from Coordinator of the COVID Communications Unit, Ambassador Elizabeth Thompson, during a press conference, to discuss the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccines in Barbados. Ambassador […]
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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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