Effective immediately, public hospitals islandwide will be restricted to conducting emergency care services only. This comes as the public health facilities register continued increases in confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 infections that required hospitalisation. This has caused the facilities to exceed their COVID-19 isolation capacity. Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor McKenzie, “Most hospitals are over the capacity of...

The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, has said that healthcare workers and vulnerable groups in Southwestern St. Elizabeth may benefit from digital grants as a result of partnering with payment facilitator, WiPay. The announcement was made during WiPay’s opening ceremony of its headquarters in New Kingston, yesterday (August 26). The Minister said the selection of the recipients...

NEW CASES 24 HRS OVERALL Confirmed Cases 605 64,899 SEX CLASSIFICATION Females 339 36,669 Males 266 28,227 Under Investigation 0 3 AGE RANGE 6 days to 100 years 1 day to 108 years   PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES     Clarendon 13 3,287 Hanover 18 2,084 Kingston & St. Andrew 159 16,933 Manchester 34 4,356 Portland 5 1,780 St....

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is recommending that member countries adopt a phased approach to reopening schools for face-to-face learning in the 2021/22 academic year, in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Director, Dr. Carissa Etienne, says this approach should take into consideration the local epidemiological situation, which, she notes, “can change rapidly”. “Surveillance will be key to ensuring...

The heads of several faith-based organisations have endorsed the Government’s national coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programme. In a show of support for the undertaking, several leaders from the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Church of God, Pentecostal, and Seventh-day Adventist denominations, among others, participated in the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ recent press conference at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, during...

The Ministry of Tourism is on a drive to get workers within the industry vaccinated. “We are looking now at an incentive programme with transportation and possibly some refreshment and entertainment and so on. Whatever it is going to take to get our people – the workers of the industry in particular – to register first and then to vaccinate,...

  NEW CASES 24 HRS OVERALL Confirmed Cases 463 64,294 SEX CLASSIFICATION     Females 286 36,329 Males 177 27,962 Under Investigation 0 3 AGE RANGE 9 days to 97 years 1 day to 108 years         PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES     Clarendon 33 3,273 Hanover 16 2,066 Kingston & St. Andrew 80 16,784 Manchester...