At approximately 3:50 p.m. on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, the Virgin Islands Bureau of Corrections (“BOC”) learned that an inmate at the John Bell Adult Correctional Facility tested positive for the novel coronavirus (a/k/a/ “COVID19) after complaining of mild flu-like symptoms. This was the first confirmed case of COVID- 19 infection at this BOC facility since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic in March 2020.
