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Health Ministry to retrofit 110 health facilities across the island, Government outlines boundaries for August Town ZOSO and Social intervention committee established for August Town.

ZoSo declared for August Town community, 3.8 billion spent on COVID-19 response to date; and SET and BEST Cash Initiatives extended to August.

Health and Wellness ministry says at home quarantine monitoring will be facilitated by geofencing app, Gov’t seeking to build out JCF training facility at Tranquillity Bay in St. Elizabeth and recovery of construction industry continues.

Government rethinking its decision to reopen some venues; tags and passports to become mandatory for cattle; and NIS pension encashment continuing this month.

Jamaicans encouraged to use jamcovid19 website, persons urged to report those who breach quarantine orders and protocols for the reopening of daycare facilities to be published soon.

High-profile inmates who are believed to be issuing instructions to accomplices on the outside are to be moved to newly constructed cells. National Security Minister, Dr. Horace Chang says the new cells will be equipped with technology that jams communication signals. The first 24 inmates will be moved within one week, as part of ongoing efforts to curtail criminal activity.

Legal framework for Major Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Agency (MOCA) in final stages; Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency undertaking digital transformation; and Millions in judgement debts and settlements paid over by the Government.

Jamaica confirms 8 new COVID-19 cases, new traffic ticket management system to be rolled out this year and 57 Brain Builder Centers to be built by September.

Cinemas and playhouses to reopen; Early Childhood Institutions to Receive Sanitation Grant; and More mentally ill detainees to be released from prison this month.

Police to relocate inmates believed to be communicating with accomplices; 200 housing units handed over in St Catherine housing development; and 5 new COVID-19 cases confirmed.