Day: 18th June 2021

The number of cases referred to the Cybercrime Unit for investigation for the period January 2015 to 10 June 2021 is 1,888. This number includes 153cases for the period January 2021 to 10 June 2021.

This information was given by the Prime Minister (PM), Mr Pravind Jugnauth, in the National Assembly, in reply to a Parliamentary Question pertaining to the number of cases referred to the Cybercrime Unit and the number of police officers attached thereto.

Prime Minster Jugnauth highlighted that the Cybercrime Unit is manned by 22 police officers as follows: One Assistant Superintendent of Police; two Inspectors of Police; two Police Sergeants; 15 Police Constables; and two Woman Police Constables. The Unit, he underscored, is under the supervision of a Deputy Commissioner of Police and the Police IT Unit provides them with technical support in the course of their investigations.

The Seychelles’ health authority is looking into the possibility of administering COVID-19 booster shots to curb community transmission in the island nation.

The Public Health Commissioner, Jude Gedeon, told a press conference on Thursday that “we are saying that six months after getting the second dose, we will see if a booster shot is necessary and if that is the case it will be given around August.”

Gedeon said that “vaccines that will be used for the booster has not been decided yet as we follow the guidelines of other countries that have the ability to do this kind of research. So this is being done for us to know what will be our next step.”

Currently, Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, is doing a survey to find out the immunity level in the community.

Seychelles rolled out its COVID-19 vaccination programme in January and to date, 66,543 people have been vaccinated which is 68 percent of the total population of 98,462. Three vaccines have been administered namely Sinopharm, Covishield and Sputnik V. Seychelles presently has 1,293 active cases and has recorded 46 deaths up to June 9. (SNA)