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3,000 Passengers Trapped On Cruise Ship Due To 1 COVID-19 Case Can Finally Leave

SINGAPORE — Guests began leaving a Genting Cruise Lines "cruise to nowhere" this evening after nearly 3,000 passengers and crew were confined to their staterooms through most of the day…

Bro Bot July 14, 2021

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USVI Children’s Health At Risk Because Their Parents Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Mutant strains of COVID-19 present the greatest risk of infection to people in the U.S. Virgin Islands because the B117 and the delta variant are at least…

VI Free Press June 27, 2021

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Acute Malnutrition Surging Among Haitian Children, UNICEF Warns

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Cases of life-threatening malnutrition are expected to more than double among young Haitian children this year, due to COVID-19, gang violence and extreme weather associated with climate change,…

VI Free Press May 31, 2021

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Latin America and Caribbean Has Highest Per Capita COVID-19 Death Rate In World

BRASILIA — The death toll from COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean was due to pass one million people today, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic worsening…

VI Free Press May 21, 2021

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Pandemic Forces 62-Year-Old Women Into Sex Trade In Mexico … Just To Buy Food

MEXICO CITY — Hardships caused by the coronavirus pandemic have forced former sex workers in Mexico back into the trade years after they left, made it more dangerous and reduced…

VI Free Press April 9, 2021

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32 Countries In Americas Have Detected Infection By 1 of 3 ‘Variants of Concern’

BRIDGETOWN — The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said 32 countries and territories in the Americas have reported the presence of at least one of the three “variants of concern”…

VI Free Press April 5, 2021

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Caribbean Appeals To Biden To Share Vaccines With U.S. ‘Third Border’

HAVANA — Several Caribbean island nations have issued a plea to the United States to share its stockpile of COVID-19 vaccines with the region as it has said it would…

VI Free Press April 3, 2021

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Nurses Given Added Critical Care Responsibilities During COVID-19

PORT OF SPAIN — Brittany Baptise is a nurse at the Scarborough General Hospital in Trinidad and Tobago. Today is her day off and she smiles as she describes how…

VI Free Press March 29, 2021

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USVI Lags Behind Most Other Territories, U.S. Mainland In Being Fully Vaccinated

CHRISTIANSTED — If a Virgin Islander took a shot today — it was probably a Cruzan Rum shot — not the COVID-19 vaccine. That's because the USVI has the third-lowest…

VI Free Press March 17, 2021

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Italian Prosecutors Seize Batch Of AstraZeneca Vaccine After Death Of Man

ROME — Prosecutors in the northern Italian region of Piedmont said today they had seized a batch of 393,600 shots of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine following the death of a…

VI Free Press March 15, 2021