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BVI’s COVID-19 death toll climbs to 31! Active cases reduced to 584

The BVI’s COVID-19 death toll has now climbed to 31 persons.

The previous death toll reported last Friday stood at 25 people.

Health Minister Carvin Malone made the disclosure Tuesday evening on the VIP’s Let’s Talk radio programme.

“We don’t want a nation who becomes oblivious or [where] death is so commonplace, that we feel as if it doesn’t matter anymore,” Malone stated.

He said persons should remain mindful of the death toll and not wait until they are too ill to seek medical treatment.

Importantly, the minister said none of the deaths reported had been persons who were vaccinated.

According to Malone, active positive cases have substantially reduced and now stand at 584 persons.

The Health Minister also revealed that there have been some 32 persons discharged from the Dr D Orlando Hospital’s Special Care Unit.

He said there are 24 persons currently hospitalised at the medical facility.

Malone further shared that there are some 16,330 persons in total who have been vaccinated.

Of that number, 11,266 persons are considered fully vaccinated while 5,064 have only received one dose of the AstraZeneca jab thus far.

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  1. akon says:

    At what positive case number will the curfew be done with? yall have people out of work and only looking to provide money for yall advisors.

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  2. Joseph says:

    Are there shortages of medications to treat severely infected Covid-19 patients at the hospital?

    Monoclonal Antibody Medication can help to prevent deaths in such patients.

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    • More misinformation. says:

      Monoclonal antibody treatments have not been approved. Why?
      Because they show good results in only a few patients, and ONLY if given before the infection is moderate or severe.
      For the majority of patients, it has shown no effect.
      If there was a magic bullet to treat this disease, the pharmaceutical companies would be mass producing and advertising the hell out of it even before government regulators approved it, their profits would be immense.
      But there isn’t a magic bullet, sorry.
      Well, unless you consider a vaccination that protects you from hospitalization and death?

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      • Doctor Know says:

        Where shall we send your Nobel Prize? But first you must publish the research that led you to this discovery.

      • Well actually says:

        Pharmaceutical industries have been caught shelving or playing down the effectiveness of treatments that are well established, widely available and cheap.

        Why? Because there is no money to be made

        Case in point – ivermectin dose cost less than a dollar. Being currently used successfully to treat COVID patients. CDC and FDA have not greenest its use yet, rather “they are looking into it”…

        But think what you will. This gon be one he’ll of a Netflix Documentary

    • Math Tutor says:

      This was addressed. They are waiting for the UK to send these.

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    • x says:

      Seems like you know about treatments that no one else in the world knows about. Don’t keep it to yourself. Let the World Health Organization know.

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  3. Condolences says:

    to all surviving family members. May you find strength to get thru your loss.

    This is just terrible. 31 deaths in such a short time span is quite a lot to deal with in our small community. The pain here is deep.

    It is my hope that the remaining 24 persons who are hospitalized will recover fully.

    Again, I will like to appeal to anyone who remains currently unvaccinated to get vaccinated as soon as possible.

    Save your selves from this deadly virus. Don’t wait until it’s too late.

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  4. Compulsory vaccination says:

    Hon Malone can we please discuss compulsory vaccination for government workers to protect them, their families and the general public? 31 sons and daughters of the BVI have died and we need some drastic measures to prevent mass casualties of our people!

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    • Syrupes says:

      Why are you so focuses on Government workers? Take a seat.

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    • Math Tutor says:

      Amen

    • Sans Souci says:

      We must accept that the deaths were consensual. Freedom of right to make personal decisions about our health our bodies.The concern should be self reflection about our mental health and self value.
      Our community is dominated by a population of persons whose decision it is to die at their own hands. They are morbidly obese and suffer the resulting chronic illnesses of ,diabetes, heart and respiratory illnesses and cancer.
      Let us fast forward to positivity and possibilities for those who choose life within a community conscious of our responsibilities to family and community for as long as we are given the gift of life.

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    • AReminder says:

      People have a right to choose how and when they wish to die. Freedom!
      At this point and time the choice is being made with knowledge about the vaccines.
      Knowing on a daily basis that so and so or how many,manyis pointless and serves zero purpose.
      Many more issues of importance and revelance to those desirous of living..scolding Malone and others accomplishes nothing. Direct the energy to scolding your family members and friends.
      Life goes on for the living.

    • Truth Be Told says:

      Check the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights.

  5. wow says:

    The good the bad and the ugly news

  6. Citizen says:

    So the public have to listen to a political show to get information.

    Carvin, you full of s…t.

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    • TruDat! says:

      @citizen – you hit the nail on the head. Why are we not getting factual and timely information on a regular basis from the official channels. Everyone is so damn happy to be on TV, Radio & Facebook Live they have lost sight of what they are getting paid to do. What is the process for starting a vote of no-confidence in these clowns? The time is right.

  7. WTF says:

    If you don’t test, active case numbers go down.

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  8. Positive cases? says:

    With the shut down of contact tracing and testing, of course the positive cases have dropped, not because people aren’t infected, but because you are not testing them.
    Hospitalizations and death rates are the ones we need to watch to really inform us of the caseload.
    Typically, hospitalizations rise 1 to 2 weeks after widespread infection, deaths 2-3 weeks.
    So, watch those, as the numbers of hospitalizations and deaths start dropping, then we really know the cases are going down.
    Eventually they will go down, as every single person has either been vaccinated or had covid.

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  9. @ CITIZEN says:

    YEP , WHEN HIS MASTER GIVE HIM A SCRIPT HE HAS TO FOLLOW THROUGH IN OVERDRIVE OR FEEL THE WRAUGHT OF THE BROWN BOMBER ?

  10. Mad Max says:

    Why is this being announced in this way. These statistics should be announced by the Health Service, not a minister as part of a party political broadcast. This information needs to be in the public domain.

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  11. Date's says:

    QUESTION, WHEN DID THE SIX LOST THE BATTLE TO COVID-19.? BREAK IT DOWN, 24th-25th 26th 27th

  12. Basil of Bandar Abbas says:

    Well said Sans Souci !

  13. AReminder says:

    People have a right to choose how and when they wish to die. Freedom!
    At this point and time the choice is being made with knowledge about the vaccines.
    Knowing on a daily basis that so and so or how many and day and time,is pointless and serves zero purpose.
    Many more issues of importance and revelance to those desirous of living..scolding Malone and others accomplishes nothing. Direct the energy to scolding your selfish family members and friends.
    Life goes on for the living.

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  14. Ann says:

    The worldwide Covid deaths are chiefly among the UNVACCINATED! While your body-your choice is true, you must face the consequences, which include death. Is it worth it?

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