First detected in India, the Delta strain of the COVID-19 virus is a spike protein mutation that can spread faster and exhibit different symptoms than COVID-19.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The Government of Haiti on Thursday received 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines donated by the United States through the COVAX Facility.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Health Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton is calling on Jamaicans to monitor and destroy mosquito breeding sites in and around their homes, as the Dengue fever remains a threat in the country.

From first responders to grocery store employees to healthcare workers and bus drivers—these are prime examples of the Black essential workers who are on the frontlines every day in a number of key industries in the US labor force. Unfortunately, with that prominence comes a higher risk of contracting COVID-19. There is a disproportionate number of Black Americans who serve at the labor forefront and are putting themselves at greater risk of contracting the virus. In fact, at the height of the pandemic earlier this year,one in four deaths from COVID-19 were Black Americans.  

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The St. Lucia Tourism Authority (SLTA) Wednesday projected a “very strongly” month for tourist arrivals here after the island registered an increase of more than 34 per cent in arrivals.

NEW YORK, New York – The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gaston Browne on Friday reiterated a call made earlier this week, at the first World Health Organization (WHO) forum for Small Island Development States (SIDS) on Health, for the health and well-being of SIDS to be classified as a global human right.  

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, said his Team Unity administration is committed to ensuring the highest level of safety and protection for its citizens and residents in the use of COVID-19 vaccines, and as such it will only consent to the use of vaccines that have been granted approval for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO). 

KINGSTON, Jamaica –Jamaica has launched a knowledge, attitudes and practices study on salt consumption in the country as part of the efforts to inform consumers on healthy lifestyle choices.

“Vaccinating children for COVID-19 is a key component to reaching the two-thirds threshold necessary to obtain herd immunity and stop the pandemic from continuing to spread and mutate,” said Dr. Miguela Caniza, Director of the St. Jude Global Infectious Diseases Program at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has raised the possibility of the vaccine to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19) becoming mandatory to the population should the virus mutate to the point of posing a serious threat to Trinidad and Tobago.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kenneth George on Sunday called on all local establishments to re-evaluate all protocols related to COVID-19 in the wake of a hike in cases across the country.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A shipment of 65,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines donated by Mexico will facilitate the staging of another blitz this weekend to inoculate persons who are due their second dose, Health and Wellness Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton said Wednesday.