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Health Authorities Implementing Best Practices and…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 30, 2021 (SKNIS): Health authorities in St. Kitts and Nevis are implementing best practices from the tremendous success of managing previous waves of the COVID-19 virus…
Legal to vaccinate 2 Caribbean jurists make case…
Source: Daily Express Trinidad ANNA RAMDASS A case for mandatory vaccination has been legally made by two Caribbean jurists. Sir Dennis Byron and Prof Rosemarie Antoine submitted the view to the heads…
St Kitts And Nevis Moving Closer to Introducing…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 16, 2021 (SKNIS): Legislation to introduce universal healthcare in St. Kitts and Nevis is currently being drafted by a legal expert which will then go to Cabinet for…
More Improvements Coming to The Health Sector In…
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, December 16, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – The Ministry of Health completed a number of major infrastructural projects in 2021 that will ensure the…
Mosquito Control
The met office has recorded an increase in rainfall activity in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. As you are aware, we are currently fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic, hence mitigating the risk of…
Omicron spreading so fast it threatens Britain’s…
LONDON (AP) — The omicron variant is spreading so rapidly it has the potential to overwhelm Britain's hospitals, highlighting the need to strengthen coronavirus restrictions and speed up the delivery…
Antigua Government to Decide Whether or Not to…
The Antigua and Barbuda government said it will decide on December 15 whether or not to lift the state of emergency (SOE) that has been put in place since March 2020. The government had last month…
More Covid-19 Restrictions Being Relaxed. No…
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, December 08, 2021 (Press Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister) – After a review of its current policies and following several rounds of discussions with relevant health and…
The National COVID-19 Task Force is working with…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, December 3, 2021 (SKNIS): Superintendent in the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force, Cromwell Henry says the new COVID-19 regulations will add another layer of…
Germany locks unvaccinated out of public life;…
BERLIN (AP): Unvaccinated people across Germany will soon be excluded from non-essential stores, restaurants and sports and cultural venues, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Thursday, and parliament…
Nevis Health Minister says booster vaccines…
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (December 02, 2021) - - Booster COVID-19 vaccines are available to persons on Nevis, but only on doctors’ orders or for those with underlying conditions who are more likely to…
Argentina Donates COVID-19 Vaccines to The Eastern…
Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 01, 2021 (Government of Argentina): On Wednesday, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) received 42.000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines donated by the…
OECS Health Ministers discuss “Health System…
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 — The 7th Annual meeting of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Council of Ministers: Health convened virtually on Wednesday, 24th November 2021. The Meeting…
WHO warns that new virus variant poses ‘very high’…
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization warned Monday that the global risk from the omicron variant is “very high” based on the early evidence, saying the mutated coronavirus could lead to surges…
Nevis public urged to participate in World AIDS…
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (November 29, 2021) -- The Nevis Health Promotion Unit (HPU) is urging members of the public to adorn the colour red and join them in an event dubbed “Light up the town," and a…