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Hint of Christmas COVID lockdown

WESTERN BUREAU: Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the COVID-19 scrutiny being placed on Westmoreland, the nation’s new epicentre for the coronavirus, could be extended to other parishes as part of a major push to control the outbreak. Describing Westmoreland as “ground zero now”, Tufton said any decision to exert greater control by way of quarantines rests on the trajectory of the numbers of new COVID-19 cases and the threat a spike presents to hospital capacity. “The belt from Hanover, St James, into Trelawny, St Ann, also represents points of concern for us, and a lot depends on what the numbers look like, what the projection says, and how much people comply,” said Tufton at a Gleaner Editors’ Forum held in conjunction with the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

No irie Christmas in the sun for some US-based Jamaicans

A view of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James. Normalene Brown has been hosting Christmas treats in a district close to Macka Tree in St Catherine for upwards of a decade. The resident of Wellington in West Palm Beach, Florida, usually shops year round to ship more than a dozen barrels home. This year, such plans have been shelved due to what she described as draconian COVID-19 containment measures in the island. Brown said that the barrels – which are filled with school supplies, food and gifts for the residents of that section of St Catherine from which she hails – usually cost her a pretty penny, but she is always willing to give back to persons in the land of her birth.

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