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DIABETES DOES NOT INCREASE RISK OF PERSONS CONTRACTING COVID-19

Published 30 July 2020

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DIABETES DOES NOT INCREASE RISK OF PERSONS CONTRACTING COVID-19

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 30, 2020 (SKNIS): Chief Medical Officer Dr. Hazel Laws said that according to a journal article published in the Lancet on July 17, 2020, diabetes does not increase the risk of a person contracting COVID-19, however, patients over 60 with COVID-19 and uncontrolled diabetes have a poorer outcome.

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SIXTEEN OF THE SEVENTEEN CONFIRMED COVID-19 CASES IN ST. KITTS-NEVIS HAVE NOW RECOVERED

Published 30 July 2020

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SIXTEEN OF THE SEVENTEEN CONFIRMED COVID-19 CASES IN ST. KITTS-NEVIS HAVE NOW RECOVERED

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 30, 2020 (SKNIS): Sixteen of the seventeen confirmed COVID-19 cases have recovered, revealed Chief Medical Officer Dr. Hazel Laws during the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) Press Briefing on July 29, 2020.  

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ST. KITTS AND NEVIS COVID-19 SITUATION REPORT AS AT WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2020|3:00PM

Published 30 July 2020

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ST. KITTS-NEVIS RED CROSS SOCIETY HOLDS DISASTER MANAGEMENT TRAINING WORKSHOP

Published 28th June 2020

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ST. KITTS-NEVIS RED CROSS SOCIETY HOLDS DISASTER MANAGEMENT TRAINING WORKSHOP

Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 28, 2020 (SKNIS): In preparation for the peak of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season, the St. Kitts and Nevis Red Cross Society, in collaboration with stakeholders including the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is hosting a five-day disaster management training workshop at the Red Cross Headquarters in Basseterre.

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Remarks by President Trump at Signing of Executive Orders on Lowering Drug Prices

Published 28 July 2020

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 HEALTHCARE

 Issued on: July 24, 2020

South Court Auditorium

3:45 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  Well, thank you very much, everybody.  Please.  (Applause.)

This promises to be a very big and very important meeting, so bear with me.  Take a little while.  But it has to do with a thing called “drug pricing.”  And as you know, Congress has been working on this for decades and decades.  And we are now doing something that is going to be incredible for the American public.

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