The Government has extended the quarantine and curfew measures for communities within the parishes of St. Thomas and Clarendon. The current measures will expire on Thursday, August 20. The extended measures are in response to continued transmission of COVID-19 within St. Thomas and Clarendon. The measures will run for a further 14 days ending September 2. Prime Minister Andrew Holness...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, has advised that more than 300 home visits have been conducted in St. Thomas and 700 samples collected. He was speaking at a digital press conference at Jamaica House on Monday (August 17). With a rise in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in St. Thomas, the Government, on August 6, imposed quarantine...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is calling on residents in 18 Kingston and St. Andrew communities that are being monitored in light of increased coronavirus (COVID- 19) cases to take greater precaution in protecting themselves. The communities that have been seeing an increase in cases in the last two weeks and have a high risk of transmission are...

Effective Tuesday (August 18), the parish of St. Thomas will be under curfew for 14 days between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. daily. In addition, the community quarantine that is currently in effect for the Church Corner area in the parish has been extended for another 14 days and will now end on September 2 instead of...

The National Water Commission (NWC) is encouraging customers to take advantage of its COVID-19 Assistance Programme (CAP), which has been extended until August 31, 2020. Corporate Public Relations Manager at the NWC, Andrew Canon, told JIS News, that the extension was in recognition of the financial constraints that some customers are facing at this time given the impact of the...

The number of COVID-19 cases on record for Jamaica increased by seven as at Sunday (August 16). The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases now stands at 1,113. Additionally, three more patients have been numbered among the recovered and released, bringing total recoveries to 764 (68.6% recovery rate). Of the newly confirmed cases, three are males and four are females,...

Non-residents visiting Jamaica from the United States, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico, which have all been designated as high risk locations, are now required to obtain a COVID-19 PCR test prior to arrival. This applies to all non-residents 12 years and older, including those who are business travellers, entering the island on or after August 20 from the locations currently designated as high risk...