BVI tightens COVID-19 measures
Published:Friday | August 28, 2020 | 12:18 AM
ROAD TOWN (AP):
The Governor of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Augustus Jaspert, has announced a lockdown of the British overseas territory as it seeks to deal with an upsurge in the number of COVID-19 cases.
The BVI has recorded one death and 25 positive cases of the virus that has so far killed 820,000 people and infected 23.9 million others worldwide since it was first detected in China last December.
Jaspert said that effective Wednesday, for seven days in the first instance, only those businesses that provide essential services will be open, and all other businesses and workplaces must be closed.
“People will be free to leave their homes during 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. (local time), but we ask that you limit this as much as possible and only do so to access essential services and activities,” Jaspert said.
He said that the BVI was now recording further cases of COVID-19 and is now classified as having clusters of cases.