Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Hazel Laws, announced during a Special NEOC COVID-19 Press Briefing on Saturday, June 26, that the new COVID-19 strain that was picked up in St. Kitts and Nevis in May 2021, is identified as the Lambda variant. In early June, the...
Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 28, 2021 (SKNIS): As the Lambda variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 disease continues to spread throughout communities in St. Kitts, with Nevis spared, for the time being, the Government on the advice of health authorities has instituted a...
Around the globe, countries continue to battle the COVID-19 virus in an effort to save lives and return to some sense of normalcy. Medical Chief of Staff of the Joseph N. France Hospital (JNF) Dr. Cameron Wilkinson in response to questions regarding the effectiveness of...
The Ministry of Health’s robust contact tracing continues to identify new cases of COVID-19 with nineteen (19) positive results within the last 24 hours. St. Kitts & Nevis COVID-19 Situation Report No. 454 as of Saturday 23rd June, 2021, states that the total number of confirmed...
Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 22, 2021 (SKNIS): St. Kitts and Nevis has recorded another COVID-19 related death, bringing the number of deaths from the dreadful disease to three in less than one week as the number of confirmed cases increases through community spread. The recent...