Workers in the Tourism industry are calling on Jamaicans to mobilise themselves and participate  in  the Government’s national coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programme. Hundreds of tourism workers, their families and friends turned out at the Tourism Vaccination Task Force’s COVID-19 Vaccination Blitz, held at Moon Palace in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, on September 3. The Ministry of Tourism, in partnership with the Jamaica Hotel...

Vaccination against the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) has put many anxious Jamaicans at ease and abated their fears of severe illness or death should they contract the virus. With a high COVID-19 positivity rate of 54 per cent, it is likely that an increased number of persons will become infected, especially if they do not adhere to the infection prevention and...

For Little London High School Teacher, Moya Williams, receiving the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine meant taking the first step towards the possibility of physically reuniting with her students, after more than one year of teaching online. The 27-year-old was quick off the blocks to get the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine at a recent Vaccination Blitz at the Sean Lavery...

“I don’t want to catch that awful thing,” 79-year old Lorna Rowe tells JIS News before entering the National Arena on Saturday (April 3) to receive her first dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine. She was among more than 1,000 elderly persons, who came out to be inoculated against the deadly virus during the Ministry of Health and Wellness’...

Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) President, Richard Pandohie, is urging greater adherence by more Jamaicans to the Government’s coronavirus (COVID-19) infection prevention and control measures. He says this is imperative to stem the current surge in COVID-19 cases, which have spiraled past 36,000 with more than 530 deaths, and eventually flatten the local outbreak. Mr. Pandohie tells JIS News...

Medical Officer of Health for Westmoreland, Dr. Marcia Graham, says that take-up of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine in the parish has exceeded expectations. She tells JIS News that persons have been turning out at the Westmoreland Health Department and the Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital, where the vaccine is being administered, to get their injections. The exercise started on Wednesday (March...