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WESTERN BUREAU:
ST JAMES’ health authorities have revealed that the parish’s average positive infection rate for COVID-19 stands at 15 per cent, which is higher than the national positive average of nine per cent and among the highest rates in western Jamaica.
Dr Francine Phillips-Kelly, the medical officer for St James, provided the statistics on Wednesday during a special meeting of the St James Municipal Corporation, which was attended by Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton. The meeting formed part of Tufton’s visit to the region in the wake of western Jamaica becoming a hotbed for the spread of the pandemic.
WESTERN BUREAU:
Following St James record high mosquito Aedes index of 25.6 per cent in October, the St James Health Department is reporting that the index has reduced significantly to 18.2 per cent in November, which is in keeping with the parish’s constantly shifting Aedes numbers since January.
Sherika Lewis, the acting public health inspector for St James, gave the latest Aedes figures while addressing last Thursday’s monthly sitting of the St James Municipal Corporation, in Montego Bay. She also noted that more premises were inspected across the parish last month than in October.
“With the commencement of the task-worker programme on October 27, we have managed for the month of November to inspect a total of 18,000 premises, with 3,000 of them positive for mosquito breeding, which brings our Aedes index to approximately 18.2 per cent,” Lewis told the meeting.
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