NEW CASES 24 HRS OVERALL    NOTES   Confirmed Cases 306 39,543 SEX CLASSIFICATION     Females 154 22,200 Males 146 17,334 Under Investigation 6 9 AGE RANGE 4 months to 98 years 1 day to 108 years PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES       Clarendon 16 2,211 Hanover 4 1,118 KSA 129 11,285 Manchester 3 2,361 Portland 0...

The Government’s second coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccination Blitz is to be held this Saturday (April 3), at the National Arena, in St. Andrew. The blitz is the mass vaccination plan being implemented by the Ministry of Health and Wellness to vaccinate 1,000 persons in a day at a single location. Persons now being targeted for vaccination islandwide are those aged 75...

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Carissa Etienne, says the entity is working with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to explore ways to expand member countries’ access to coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines. These, she said, include encouraging countries from the region and beyond to share doses they are not or will not be using, noting...

Regional Director of the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA), Michael Bent, says the region continues to exceed its daily COVID-19 vaccination targets. He noted that the region had a target of 3,120 persons on March 24, which has since been surpassed by 54 per cent, with some 4,780 vaccinated on that day. Mr. Bent was speaking to JIS News subsequent...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) are being provided with turmeric tea in a bid to boost their immune system. Shavuot International Holdings Limited, through distributor Derrimon Trading Company Limited, has been supplying the hospital with 10 cases of tea per week since about mid-March. The arrangement, which is for three months, was formalised during a virtual...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has expressed high hopes that financing of the recovery of developing nations from the economic impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) will be managed in a sustainable manner. “I am optimistic, based on what I am seeing [and] hearing in the international community,” Mr. Holness told leaders gathered at the virtual High-Level Meeting of...

A research team from the University of the West Indies (UWI) has determined that antibody testing kits can be used to detect past SARS COV 2 infections in persons who had been symptomatic for at least 10 days. SARS COV 2 is the virus that causes the coronavirus (COVID-19). Providing details at a recent JIS Think Tank, Research Assistant in...