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Professor Peter Figueroa, one of Jamaica’s leading epidemiologists, said that if visitors from the United Kingdom (UK) to Jamaica in the last few weeks were observing strict quarantine measures, the risk of transmission of a new variant of coronavirus would be reduced locally.
Reports in the UK media said that the mutation is 70 per cent more contagious than the SARS-CoV2 strain first detected by scientists in early December.
Figueroa pointed out, however, that there was no evidence that the new variant was more virulent or made people any sicker.
The public health professor said that if established protocols such as the wearing of masks in public, washing of hands and physical distancing are observed, the virus will be contained.
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THE FIRST, small batch of COVID-19 vaccines are not expected in Barbados or the rest of the Caribbean before March next year and supply to the region is already under threat from big countries snapping up doses through direct deals with manufacturers.
Word of this came last Friday from University of the West Indies (UWI) Professor Peter Figueroa, a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) SAGE Working Group on COVID Vaccines, in an
online UWI Vice-Chancellor’s Forum on COVID-19 Vaccination via
UWI TV.
“Low and middle income countries are unlikely to get vaccines before March or April and it will be very little initially. We’ll get a bit more in the middle of the year and then we’ll get some more towards the end of the year,”