Jamaica announces coronavirus lockdown with health system on brink
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By Kate Chappell
KINGSTON (Reuters) — Jamaica
will prohibit residents from leaving
their homes for seven days spread over
three weekends to contain an upsurge
in coronavirus infections and shield
its healthcare system, Prime Minister
Andrew Holness said.
The Caribbean nation has been battling
a third wave of infections, with the
presence of the highly contagious Delta
variant confirmed on the island.
“Our case numbers are unacceptably
high and rising, and the rate of
hospitalization is beyond — and I want
to stress this — beyond the capacity of
our health system, to cope,” Holness
told a virtual news conference late on
Thursday.
More than 550 people are hospitalized
with COVID-19 in the island nation
of almost three million people. To date,
nearly 60,000 people have been infected
with the coronavirus and more than
1,300 people have died.
Officials are concerned coronavirus
is widespread, with a seven-day average
positivity rate of 39 percent. The rate
spiked after authorities eased containment
measures last month.
“It is not going well right now, and
we are really going to have to put in
some serious measures to get the numbers
down quickly,” said Jamaica’s Chief
Medical Officer, Jacquiline Bisasor-Mckenzie,
who also spoke at the news
conference.
Jamaica is to start its restrictions
on movement on Sunday, with the first
lockdown lasting three days, Holness
said. There will be an identical threeday
ban on movement the following
weekend, and a one-day lockdown on
Sunday, Sept. 5.
Jamaicans will be required to remain
at home unless they are essential workers,
although there will be some flexibility
for citizens who have international
travel plans, or appointments for
a vaccination.
The country’s vaccination efforts
have been sluggish, with only 5 percent
of the population fully vaccinated.
(Reporting by Kate Chappell; Writing
by Drazen Jorgic; editing by Barbara
Lewis)
Prime Minister of Jamaica Andrew Holness addresses the 74th session of
the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York,
U.S., Sept. 27, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid/File
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