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Public Hospitals only accepting Emergency case – General service suspended until further notice

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...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (centre), discussing digital currency evolution with the online payment facilitator WiPay’s Country Manager for Jamaica, Kibwe McGann (left) and Chairman of WiPay Jamaica, Livingstone Morrison, at the opening ceremony of the company’s new headquarters in New Kingston Thursday (August 26).

Digital Grants Coming for Healthcare Workers

COVID-19 Update for Thursday, August 26, 2021

Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa F. Etienne.

PAHO Advises Caution In Reopening Schools

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), addressing a recent press conference at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, during which he provided an update on the National Vaccination Implementation Plan and the role of faith-based organisations in the undertaking. Others (from left) are President, Jamaica Evangelical Alliance, Reverend Dr. Peter Garth, and President of the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Pastor Everette Brown.

Churches Endorse National COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign

Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett. JIS File Photo: Mark Bell

5 years ago CoronavirusTourism

Tourism Ministry On A Drive To Get Industry Workers Vaccinated

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,...

5 years ago CoronavirusHealth & Wellness

COVID-19 Update for Wednesday, August 25, 2021

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...

5 years ago Coronavirus

COVID-19 Update for Tuesday, August 24, 2021

NEW CASES 24 HRS OVERALL Confirmed Cases 367 63,831 SEX CLASSIFICATION Females 220 36,043 Males 147 27,785 Under Investigation 0 3 AGE RANGE 18 days to 99 years 1 day to 108 years PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES Clarendon 2 3,240 Hanover 25 2,048 Kingston & St. Andrew 80 16,705 Manchester...

5 years ago Coronavirus

Over 21,000 Jamaicans vaccinated in One Day

Over 21,000 Jamaicans were vaccinated on Tuesday, August 24, 2021, as the Ministry of Health & Wellness continued its four day special vaccination blitz across the island. This number represents a record for the highest number of persons vaccinated in one day since the COVID-19 Vaccination programme began in March. Approximately 40% of those vaccinated on Tuesday, were children between...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (left), and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith (centre), receive the 115,200 doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccines, acquired through the African Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP), from United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Resident Representative in Jamaica, Mariko Kagoshima. The presentation was made at the National Health Fund in Kingston, on Monday (August 23). The vaccines were dispatched through UNICEF.

5 years ago Coronavirus

Jamaica Receives 115,200 Doses Of Johnson And Johnson COVID-19 Vaccines

Jamaica has received 115,200 doses of the Johnson and Johnson coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines through the African Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP). The single-dose vaccines, which arrived on Monday evening (August 23), were dispatched through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and are the first of two shipments. The Government is slated to receive the second later this month, which would bring...

Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (right), addresses a press conference providing an update on the National Vaccination Implementation Plan. The press conference was held on August 19 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston. Also pictured are President of the Jamaica Evangelical Alliance, Reverend Dr. Peter Garth (left), and President of the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Pastor Everette Brown.

5 years ago Coronavirus

The Best Vaccine Is The One Available – Tufton

Health and Wellness Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, is advising persons not to delay in getting vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19). Vouching for the safety of all the vaccines brought into the country, he noted that all the vaccines have been subject to clinical trials and the results reviewed by the World Health Organization (WHO). “Persons have said to...

Senior Manager Health Services at the Heart Foundation of Jamaica, Noelle Campbell, addresses a JIS Think Tank on CPR Week 2021.

5 years ago Health & Wellness

CPR Week 2021, August 23-28

The Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) will observe Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Week 2021, August 23 to 28 under the theme ‘Keep Pumping’. Speaking at a recent JIS Think Tank, Senior Manager for Health Services at the HFJ, Noelle Campbell, gave the reason for this year’s theme. “This theme was generated as a result of recognising that in the COVID crisis...