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A 69-year-old man is the 12th person to die of Covid-19 in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG).
The National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) said in a release that the man succumbed to COVID-19 disease while in isolation at the Argyle Isolation Facility on Tuesday, May 4. The stated cause of death is COVID-19 Pneumonia.
The man is the second person to die from COVID-19 in SVG in just over one week, the previous person being an 87-year-old man who died on April 26 at the Argyle Isolation Facility.
“Six new COVID-19 positive cases were reported from 110 samples processed on Tuesday May 4, 2021 resulting in a positivity rate of 5.5 per cent,” the release said.
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The GraceKennedy (GK) Group has responded to support relief efforts in St Vincent following several massive eruptions of the island’s La Soufrière volcano last month.
(CDB), Press Release
Kingstown, St. Vincent. May 4, 2021 Vincentians impacted by the eruption of the La Soufriere Volcano will be getting over US$135,000 in assistance for relief supplies, volcano monitoring and early warning equipment under the Volcano Ready Project funded by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).
Supplies including 500 mattresses, 1500 cases of bottled water and 50 800-gallon water tanks were delivered to the country on April 29. while the equipment is being procured. The equipment includes Seismic Stations (Seismometers, recorders, digitizer, power supply and case), 20 Wireless Ethernet Radios, 1 Remote monitoring camera, 3 GPS Antennas and receivers, one SO2 Spectrometer for gas measurement and a Mavic 300 drone.
Kingstown – The St Vincent and the Grenadines government says it has ordered 50 000 doses of the Russia-developed Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine, as nationals continue to refuse taking the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to help curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic here. Health officials are worried that thousands of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine are at risk of expiring at the end of this month, and Prime Minister Dr. Ralph …