{"id":231616,"date":"2021-04-12T08:36:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T08:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=231616"},"modified":"2021-04-13T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T07:09:12","slug":"st-vincent-residents-who-have-not-had-their-covid-jabs-are-banned-from-being-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=231616","title":{"rendered":"St Vincent residents who have not had their Covid jabs are BANNED from being evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>St. Vincent Prime Minister\u00a0Ralph Gonsalves said only people with Covid-19 vaccines can be evacuated\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cruise ships had volunteered to evacuate residents from the island following the two volcanic explosions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>La Soufriere on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent erupted on Friday following warnings over last few months<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The volcano erupted for a second time just six hours after the initial explosion but was smaller than the first\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>About 16,000 people are in the process of evacuating their homes in &#8216;red zones&#8217; as ash cloud rises 10km<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The University of the West Indies Seismic Center warned explosions could happen in coming days or weeks<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Neighbouring nations have been sending emergency\u00a0aid supplies such as cots and respiratory masks<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sam Baker, Lydia Catling and Charlotte Mitchell \u2013 Mail Online April 11, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Prime Minister of St. Vincent has announced that only those residents of the Caribbean island who have received their Covid-19 vaccinations will be evacuated following the two explosions from the La Soufriere volcano.<\/p>\n<p>The volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent erupted for a second time as thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p>A second explosion of the La Soufriere volcano was observed on Friday, six hours after it erupted for the first time in more than 40 years yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, the island&#8217;s\u00a0emergency management organisation Nemo tweeted to confirm that the majority of the country was experiencing power outages as a result of another explosive event.<\/p>\n<p>Their tweet read: &#8221;Massive power outage following another explosive event at La Soufriere Volcano. Lightning, thunder and rumblings. Majority of the country out of power and covered in ash.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_231621\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/St-Vincent-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231621\" class=\"wp-image-231621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/St-Vincent-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-231621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference yesterday, St. Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves confirmed that only those who had been vaccinated against coronavirus would be allowed to board cruise ships which had volunteered to evacuate residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He said: &#8216;The chief medical officer would be identifying the persons already vaccinated so that we can get them on the ship.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Gonsalves also said that residents who haven&#8217;t received a vaccine but are likely to have received it in time to join the cruise ship evacuations would not be allowed to board because of\u00a0possible side effects such as &#8216;wooziness in the head&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While out conducting fieldwork, the University of the West Indies Seismic Center team witnessed the volcano explode for a second time, with a vertical ash column estimated to have reached around 2miles (4km) into the atmosphere &#8211; smaller than the first which is estimated to have risen as high as 10 kilometers (6 miles).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Experts have warned that explosive eruptions could continue for days, or possibly weeks, and emergency aid supplies, such as cots, tents and respirator masks, have poured in from neighbouring nations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9458673\/Only-St-Vincent-residents-whove-Covid-jabs-evacuated-cruise-ships-PM-announces.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only the vaccinated will be evacuated from islands threatened by volcanic eruptions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":231618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231622,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231616\/revisions\/231622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}