KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 22, 2022 - Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, is now in the United States seeking to recruit Jamaican nurses, doctors and other medical personnel as part of his Code Care Programme which he says will help to clear the elective surgery backlog in the island’s hospitals.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana - Monday, 6 June 2022) - The Caribbean Immunization Technical Advisory Group (CITAG) is warning that as many as 3 out of 10 infants...
KINGSTON, May 1, 2022 - As Jamaica enters the 5th wave of COVID infections across the island, and with only approximately 25% of the population vaccinated, one private sector company...
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, May 20, 2022 - Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that the mask wearing requirement will be re-instituted in short order, as the COVID19 positivity rate has...
KINGSTON, Jamaica- May 18, 2022 - The Opposition Spokesman on Health and Wellness, Dr. Morais Guy, MP, says the Cabinet in general and the Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr....
Havana, Apr 28 ( Prensa Latina) The Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) on Thursday reported that 9,944,292 Cubans, accounting for 89.8 percent of the population, have been fully vaccinated against...
Havana, Apr 27 (Prensa Latina) Mambisa, Cuba's only anti-Covid-19 vaccine candidate administered nasally, managed to get more than 70 percent of the volunteers participating in the clinical study to increase...
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, April 26, 2022 - Normal operation resumed at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St. James today, after persons described as gunmen...
As the COVID pandemic has progressed, we’ve repeatedly seen the arrival of new viral variants. Variants of concern, such as delta and omicron, are versions of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that...
Kingston, Jamaica, April 14, 2022: Shadow Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Morais Guy, M.P., says the People’s National Party (PNP) is opposed to removing the COVID-19 pre-test requirement for...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of India on Friday signed an agreement to establish Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar,Gujarat, on April 21, 2022
KINGSTON, March 18, 2022 - The Government's withdrawal of measures under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Thursday has not gone down very...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 2022 — Effective March 1, the requirement to obtain a travel authorisation through the JAMCOVID or Visit Jamaica platforms will be eliminated. So says Prime Minister Andrew...