Prime Minister of St. Maarten Silveria Jacobs in a press statement, confirms that she has tested positive for the Omicron COVID-19 virus over the weekend. The Prime Minister is fully vaccinated, and has also taken the booster shot, but after experiencing mild symptoms at the weekend Jacobs decided to get tested and came up positive. […]
The continued rapid spread of Omicron variant saw the number of active COVID-19 cases reaching an unprecedented 1080 by the 6th of January 2022. what has also risen is the amount of persons that are hospitalized as a result of the variant. That has moved from 2 to 6, Scientist are finding out more about […]
There is a record surge in active COVID-19 cases as we open January 2022 on St. Maarten. The government is reporting a total of 824 active cases for January 4th 2022. This is a record jump of 146 cases in one day from 678 recorded for January 03rd. we are not told by the authorities […]
The following press release from government sounds pretty much like a desperate call for persons on St. Maarten to make themselves available to take the vaccine. When you look at the effort that went into encouraging persons to take the vaccine, it is fair to conclude that it was not at all convincing. That of […]
SABA–On Friday, February 19, Saba received 1,500 Moderna vaccines from the Netherlands. The batch arrived on Medivac helicopter from St. Maarten. Saba requested a 100 more than the initial amount of 1,400, as many people have pre-registered and the extra vaccines are needed to ensure that the entire adult population can be vaccinated. Saba Health […]
Collective Prevention Services (CPS) in a press statement confirmed that after almost one year on the COVID-19 front line, there have been no one testing positive for the virus in-house. However, on January 13, CPS detected COVID-19 among its staff. The department immediately began testing all of its staff members. Those who were found to […]
Coronavirus has seen its biggest jump on the weekend of November 22nd since the start of the second wave which began back in September. The total amount of confirmed cases has now gone past 1000, and the active cases jumped to 92. The amount of deaths also moved from 24 to 25. While the amount […]
It’s not clear that we have an effective plan to handle the COVID-19 pandemic that we are faced with throughout this world health crisis as we near the end of the year 2020. We are not hearing from CPS or the Minister of Health what their strict policies are to reduce the transmission and fight […]
While the amount of active cases on the Dutch side of the Island hovers around 50 to 69 during the last six week period, current updates for October 26th 2020 is 50 active cases. CPS continue to monitor those in home quarantine based on contact tracing, and testing are continuing. The number to watch however, […]
His majesty the King has spoken to personnel of organizations that provide medical care during the corona outbreak in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom, via online video conversations on Wednesday October 14, 2020. The King spoke to, among others, the chairman of the General practitioners association on Aruba (HAVA) about the current situation regarding […]
