{"id":113625,"date":"2020-07-16T13:10:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T17:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=113625"},"modified":"2020-07-16T13:10:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T17:10:34","slug":"annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual prostate screening will likely be postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a><\/div>
\"\"<\/a><\/div>

The Lions Club of Antigua will likely postpone its annual flagship prostate screening exercise because of the ongoing pandemic.<\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

The event, which provides free prostate examinations for men, 40 years and older, usually draws a large crowd.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cLast year we screened 976 men and as you can appreciate to do that in this condition is going to be a bit of challenge\u201d Club President, Desiree Edwards told state media.<\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>
\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

The event usually has a mixture of local and overseas doctors conducting the examinations.<\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Current regulations will require that the overseas doctors undergo weeks of quarantine before interacting with members of the local population.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor them to come down, they would have to take a longer time. Two weeks in quarantine and then another week so the logistics of that have not been worked out. It\u2019s something that we do have to have serious discussions with them, with Dr. Dwayne Thwaites, who is our partner in this\u201d, Edwards said.<\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

\u201cWe will do something, the details of it have not been finalized. We think we will be doing a more of a promotion and educational awareness campaign during that time and then postpone the screening to a later time in the year\u201d, the President revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lions Club of Antigua will likely postpone its annual flagship prostate screening exercise because of the ongoing pandemic. The event, which provides free prostate examinations for men, 40 years and older, usually draws a large crowd. \u201cLast year we screened 976 men and as you can appreciate to do that in this condition is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nAnnual prostate screening will likely be postponed - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Annual prostate screening will likely be postponed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Lions Club of Antigua will likely postpone its annual flagship prostate screening exercise because of the ongoing pandemic. The event, which provides free prostate examinations for men, 40 years and older, usually draws a large crowd. \u201cLast year we screened 976 men and as you can appreciate to do that in this condition is […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-16T17:10:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PROSTATE-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"Annual prostate screening will likely be postponed\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-16T17:10:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-07-16T17:10:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/\"},\"wordCount\":209,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1280\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PROSTATE-2.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Health\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/\",\"name\":\"Annual prostate screening will likely be postponed - Antigua News Room\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1280\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PROSTATE-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-16T17:10:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-07-16T17:10:34+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1280\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PROSTATE-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1280\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PROSTATE-2.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":960},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Annual prostate screening will likely be postponed\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/\",\"name\":\"Antigua News Room\",\"description\":\"News As It Happens\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Antigua Newsroom\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1080\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1584.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1080\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1584.jpeg\",\"width\":1260,\"height\":1260,\"caption\":\"Antigua Newsroom\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/AntiguaNewsRoom\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/antiguanewsroom\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\",\"name\":\"Editor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=96\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=96\",\"caption\":\"Editor\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/author\/editor\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Annual prostate screening will likely be postponed - Antigua News Room","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Annual prostate screening will likely be postponed","og_description":"The Lions Club of Antigua will likely postpone its annual flagship prostate screening exercise because of the ongoing pandemic. The event, which provides free prostate examinations for men, 40 years and older, usually draws a large crowd. \u201cLast year we screened 976 men and as you can appreciate to do that in this condition is […]","og_url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/","og_site_name":"Antigua News Room","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom","article_published_time":"2020-07-16T17:10:34+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":960,"url":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PROSTATE-2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Editor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AntiguaNewsRoom","twitter_site":"@AntiguaNewsRoom","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Editor","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/"},"author":{"name":"Editor","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5"},"headline":"Annual prostate screening will likely be postponed","datePublished":"2020-07-16T17:10:34+00:00","dateModified":"2020-07-16T17:10:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/"},"wordCount":209,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1280\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PROSTATE-2.jpg","articleSection":["Health","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/","url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/","name":"Annual prostate screening will likely be postponed - Antigua News Room","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1280\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PROSTATE-2.jpg","datePublished":"2020-07-16T17:10:34+00:00","dateModified":"2020-07-16T17:10:34+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1280\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PROSTATE-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1280\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PROSTATE-2.jpg","width":1280,"height":960},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/annual-prostate-screening-will-likely-be-postponed\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Annual prostate screening will likely be postponed"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/","name":"Antigua News Room","description":"News As It Happens","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization","name":"Antigua Newsroom","url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1080\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1584.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1080\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_1584.jpeg","width":1260,"height":1260,"caption":"Antigua Newsroom"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom","https:\/\/x.com\/AntiguaNewsRoom","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/antiguanewsroom\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5","name":"Editor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=96","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=96","caption":"Editor"},"url":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/author\/editor\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/19091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/anr-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}