The Surveillance Committee of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment has recorded sixteen hundred and seventeen (1617) laboratory confirmed cases of dengue fever as of November 14, 2020, epidemiological week 46. There has been a consistent decrease in the number of laboratory confirmed cases of dengue fever since epidemiological week 41, the week ending October 10, when 194 cases were recorded. There has also been a decrease in clinically diagnosed cases of dengue fever.
The Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment wishes to advise the general public that as part of the its mosquito control programme for the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito, the Insect Vector Control Unit will be conducting fogging operations in the following areas commencing at 5:00 p.m. daily.
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SOURCE: Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment
The Public Service Commission (PSC), the organizational body that governs the Public Service of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines now has a new Chairman in the person of Lawyer Stephen Williams who replaces outgoing chair, Lawyer Cecil “Blazer” Williams who served for nineteen (19) years in that position.
Prime Minister the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves has made a plea for greater inclusion of meteorological data in national planning in countries across the region.
It is notified for general information that the first session of the Eleventh Parliament and Swearing in Ceremony of Members of the House of Assembly will take place on November 30th at 4 p.m.