Health
Over 200 vaccinated at M&M Service Station
On Saturday, members of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout team rolled out the mobile unit to offer residents of Antigua and Barbuda the opportunity to...
Two new cases of COVID-19 in Antigua and Barbuda
(Dashboard Update for May 22, 2021)
The Ministry of Health has revealed two (2) new laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases in Antigua and Barbuda as of...
Antigua and Barbuda to test arriving passengers for COVID-19 variants
Antigua and Barbuda’s government said it would soon begin testing arriving passengers for coronavirus variants.
Cabinet spokesman Melford Nicholas told journalists this would help the...
No new cases, no new hospitalisations from COVID-19
(Dashboard Update for May 20, 2021)
The Ministry of Health has revealed no new laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases in Antigua and Barbuda as of Wednesday...
Three new cases of COVID-19
Dashboard Update for May 20, 2021)
The Ministry of Health has revealed three (3) new laboratory confirmed COVID-19 case in Antigua and Barbuda as of...
Antigua PM makes another plea for ‘stubborn’ citizens to get vaccinated
Prime Minister Gaston Browne has called on “stubborn” Antiguans and Barbudans to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, warning again that Government finances could...
One new case of COVID-19 recorded
(Dashboard Update for May 19, 2021)
The Ministry of Health has revealed one (1) new laboratory confirmed COVID-19 case in Antigua and Barbuda as of...
Thirty-two thousand people have received first vaccine dose
The number of people who have received the first dose of the anti-COVID-19 vaccine has climbed to approximately thirty-two thousand (32,000).
That’s the latest figure...
Only 3% of the regional population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19
PAHO Director Carissa F. Etienne today called for closing the “glaring gaps” in access to COVID-19 vaccines in Latin America and the Caribbean by...
CMO explains increase in COVID-19 deaths from 32 to 42
Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Rhonda Sealey-Thomas haas been explaining the recent changes to the death column of the COVID-19 dashboard.
She also gives an update...
Antigua and Barbuda buys half a million dollars worth of oxygen to aid in...
Antigua and Barbuda today received 234 additional units of medical oxygen.
Health Minister Molwyn Joseph accepted the purchases earlier today at the port.
Joseph says the...
PM says Antigua may have to donate if vaccines are not used
Pointe Xpress: Vaccine hesitancy appears to be stronger among indigenous Antiguans and Barbudans than among the expats dwelling among us, the nation’s leader says...
COVID vaccines: some fully vaccinated people will still get infected – here’s why
The development of several COVID vaccines in less than a year has given us all hope of a release from the pandemic. Now the...