Eight new COVID-19 positive cases were reported from 73  samples processed on April 19, 2021, resulting in a positivity rate of 11%, a release from the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) said. 

“Seventeen (17) new recoveries were recorded over the reporting period. The  number of total recoveries is seventeen hundred and three (1703). One hundred and  fourteen (114) cases are active and ten (10) persons with COVID-19 have died.  One thousand, eight hundred and twenty-seven (1827) cases of COVID-19 have  been reported in St. Vincent and the Grenadines since March 2020,” the release said.

The public is urged to continue to use masks, sanitize, physically distance and get  vaccinated to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.