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(PLTM) - Minister for Health, Hon. Carvin Malone has revealed plans for the British Virgin Islands post the 24-hour lockdown which ends 6 am on Monday, April 20.
Speaking to Carib Update News recently, Malone said: “In terms of the 24-hour curfew, we have a particular condition where it is now being mandated until the 19th, but we are going to call it [off] on 6 am on the 20th, and then we will go into a 12 or 13-hour soft curfew.”
He said, during the daytime hours, businesses deemed to be ‘critical’ will be allowed to reopen with other businesses to follow in a phased approach.
Following the first seven days, he revealed, more businesses will be allowed to operate.
“So we will have an internal movements only,” he stated.
He added, “The borders will remain closed for that first 30-day period. After the 30-day period where we will have 12 hours on and 12 hours at night under curfew we will then be able to reintroduce our citizens and our belongers and other persons into the territory, but this will have to be done in a phased approach so that we will have the proper quarantined time so that we don’t retard the progress that we made over the few weeks.”
Cabinet is meeting today to finalise plans and an announcement is promised by this evening.
That announcement is also likely to reveal the approach to schools, social gatherings and the provision of food to families desperately in need in this the final stage of the lockdown.
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