The recovery of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) economy continues to be affected by new waves of COVID-19 infections and low vaccination rates in some member countries. The disclosure came in a Communiqué after the hundredth Monetary Council meeting of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) held on Friday via video conference. Attendees heard that activity in tourism, the mainstay of the ECCU economy, remains sluggish. The Communiqué noted that the constrained economic performance of the ECCU in the first nine months of 2021 was exacerbated by losses and destruction due to eruptions of La Soufrière volcano in Saint