Officials uneasy about COVID variants Dr. Simone Keizer Beache, CMO, confirmed no presence of other variants but did register concern that they could be here. By: Dayle Da Silva• Testing is yet to confirm whether any COVID-19 variants presently exist in St Vincent and the Grenadines. But according to the Chief Medical Officer Dr Simone Keizer-Beache, given the disease patterns that were unfolding, there is concern among health officials that the UK variant could be present here. This concern comes as the Caribbean Public Health Agency.
(CARPHA) recently confirmed 5 cases of the COVID-19 variant SARS Co-V-2 (the UK variant) in St Lucia, which had become the third country behind Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica to record the variant within their borders.