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The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment has become aware of claims that Nurses were severed from the surveillance unit at the V.C Bird International Airport.<\/p>

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The Ministry categorically refutes these false allegations and intend to address this in a press conference which will be held early next week.<\/p>\n

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The Senior Management of the Ministry continue to assign and redeploy staff when necessary in response to the pandemic in order to provide the public with the highest level of professionalism and customer service.<\/p>

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We look forward to addressing these allegations in the spirit of transparency and accountability.<\/p>

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The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment has become aware of claims that Nurses were severed from the surveillance unit at the V.C Bird International Airport.   The Ministry categorically refutes these false allegations and intend to address this in a press conference which will be held early next week.   The Senior Management […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nMinistry Refutes Claims Of Nurses Being Severed - 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\/ministry-refutes-claims-of-nurses-being-severed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ministry Refutes Claims Of Nurses Being Severed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment has become aware of claims that Nurses were severed from the surveillance unit at the V.C Bird International Airport.   The Ministry categorically refutes these false allegations and intend to address this in a press conference which will be held early next week.   The Senior Management […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/ministry-refutes-claims-of-nurses-being-severed\/\" \/>\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=\"2021-07-15T17:11:54+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\/2021\/03\/Vaccine7-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\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\/ministry-refutes-claims-of-nurses-being-severed\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/ministry-refutes-claims-of-nurses-being-severed\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"Ministry Refutes Claims Of Nurses Being Severed\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-15T17:11:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-07-15T17:11:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/ministry-refutes-claims-of-nurses-being-severed\/\"},\"wordCount\":109,\"commentCount\":3,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/ministry-refutes-claims-of-nurses-being-severed\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1619\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Vaccine7-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Health\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/ministry-refutes-claims-of-nurses-being-severed\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/ministry-refutes-claims-of-nurses-being-severed\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/ministry-refutes-claims-of-nurses-being-severed\/\",\"name\":\"Ministry Refutes Claims Of Nurses Being Severed - 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