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WiredJA News Team Health 23 June 2022

JAMAICA | Health Minister targets medical personnel in the diaspora to clear surgical backlog

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.

WiredJA News Team Health 23 June 2022

JAMAICA | Health Minister targets medical personnel in the diaspora to clear surgical backlog

CARICOM | Infant immunization falls, children now at risk for measles and polio

(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...

WiredJA News Team Health 06 June 2022

JAMAICA | Technological Solutions Ltd Collaborates with schools to attack the COVID Challenge

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...

Calvin G. Brown Health 02 June 2022

JAMAICA | Gov't to reinstitute Mask Mandate says PM Holness

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...

WiredJA News Team Health 20 May 2022

JAMAICA | Tufton must take responsibility for 5th COVID Wave says Dr. Morais Guy

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....

WiredJA News Team Health 19 May 2022

CUBA has fully vaccinated 89.8 percent of population

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...

Aleynes Palacios Hurtado Health 29 April 2022

CUBA'S Mambisa vaccine candidate meets study expectations

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...

WiredJA News Team Health 29 April 2022

JAMAICA | Patient released from Cornwall Regional Hospital after invasion by thugs

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...

WiredJA News Team Health 27 April 2022

Omicron XE is spreading in the UK – a virologist explains what we know about this hybrid variant

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...

Grace C Roberts, University of Leeds Health 15 April 2022

JAMAICA | PNP Opposed to removing COVID-19 test requirements for entry to Jamaica

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...

WiredJA News Team Health 15 April 2022

INDIA | WHO to launch Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India

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

WiredJA News Team Health 26 March 2022

JAMAICA | Medical Fraternity questions full withdrawal of COVID-19 Restrictions

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...

WiredJA News Team Health 19 March 2022

JAMAICA | SARS-CoV-2 virus Travel Requirements Eased as of March 1

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...

WiredJA News Team Health 25 February 2022

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