They travelled on British Airways to Barbados and onward to Saint Vincent via LIAT.

[7] Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves announced that the annual Vincy Mas festival will be cancelled for 2020, in order to protect the population from the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

[10] On 5 April, the Queen of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines addressed the Commonwealth in a televised broadcast, in which she asked people to "take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return".

[26] 27 August 2020, it was announced that 2 guests staying at the 5 star Mandarin Oriental Resort on Canouan have tested positive.

[27] 1 September 2020, it was announced that an additional person from a group of Swedish travelers who arrived on 19 August from Grenada has tested positive.

[37] On 15 January 2021, the country recorded its first death from COVID-19, a 49-year-old female with multiple pre-existing conditions.

[38] In April, difficulties to contain the virus were compounded by the catastrophic eruption of La Soufrière.

Evacuation efforts were subsequently complicated by the need to conduct testing and vaccination before entering neighboring islands.

[39] On 29 December 2021, the country's National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) announced the first recorded case of the Omicron variant.