Jamaica has recorded two more positive coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 753, to date. “The new cases include one male and one female, aged 44 and 55 years (respectively). One case is a tourist who stayed in St. Ann and was repatriated. The other is a Jamaican citizen of a...

Trelawny Public Health Services has been working closely with the police to crack down on Jamaicans returning to the island who fail to comply with the quarantine orders. Speaking at the monthly meeting of the Trelawny Municipal Corporation in Falmouth on Thursday (July 9), Medical Officer of Health for the parish, Dr. Diahann Dale, said that some persons returning to...

Health and Wellness Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, says the ‘Adopt-A-Clinic’ initiative has garnered widespread support, with Jamaicans based locally and in the diaspora committing $81.4 million to the cause. Dr. Tufton, who made the disclosure during his contribution to the 2020/21 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on July 7, said that 22 clinics have been adopted,...

The Government has invested more than $423 million to improve the health services for high-risk pregnant women at the Spanish Town Hospital in St. Catherine, with the construction of a high-dependency unit (HDU). It is one of four facilities to have been built from funding provided under the Programme for Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality (PROMAC), which is a...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness has developed a COVID-19 Recovery Plan, with the objective of establishing an adequate legal framework to support and enable the implementation of actions in response to the virus and other biohazard public health emergencies. Portfolio Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, made the announcement during his contribution to the 2020/21 Sectoral Debate in the...

On Wednesday, (July 8), Jamaica presented at the United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), and indicated that the economy is expected to recover within two to four years and employment within one to three years following global economic fall-out caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The projected short recovery period compared with the global economic recession of...

As at Wednesday (July 8), Jamaica recorded six new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed positives for the island to 751. The new cases consist of two (2) males and four (4) females with ages ranging from 19 to 48 years. All are imported cases, who recently came into the island on flights from the United States (5)...