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Article by Social Share From next week, the Vector Control Unit will restart its fogging programme as officials continue to keep an eye on the dengue fever outbreak. Chief environmental health officer Francina Bascombe has urged householders to pay more attention to settlements and containers around their homes, which are potential mosquito breeding sites. Inspections “All across Barbados, we want persons to do inspections around their premises and ensure they don’t have any containers that contribute to that problem. And if any containers are breeding or are likely to breed mosquit...

The Ministry of Aviation (MoA) and Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) are leaving nothing to chance in their effort to ensure that the country rsquo;s airports are safe and secure in the midst of the new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) It is in the light of the above that the two-state entities engaged waste management and disinfection experts, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), to undertake a massive disinfection exercise at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). The two-hour

Jan 12, 2021 Midges! Midges! Midges! The midges are on the move, swarming residences along the coastline.  The Vector Control Unit of the Ministry of Health and Wellness has been notified of the midges’ invasions.  Fortunately, these tiny pesky bugs are not seen as a public health hazard, but even so, the ministry sent out workers on an extermination mission.   Hipolito Novelo, Reporting Midges are invading residences along the coast. These are pesky bugs that collect in the thousands, blanketing ceilings and walls. They have appeared in several communities along the coast.   ...

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Jan 12, 2021 Kim Bautista 2020 was a dreadful year for many, and we are all happy to leave that year in the past. But not everything was bad. Some good news from last year is that the number of dengue cases saw a significant decline compared to 2019. One thousand one hundred and sixty-three cases were recorded instead of the more than eight thousand cases the year before.  That’s a decline of about eighty-six percent.  Also, in 2020, there were no dengue-related deaths.  Chief of Operations at the Vector Control Unit, Kim Bautista says the reduction in cases is highly due to the...