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WiredJA News Team Health 19 May 2022

JAMAICA | Tufton must take responsibility for 5th COVID Wave says Dr. Morais Guy

KINGSTON, Jamaica- May 18, 2022 - The Opposition Spokesman on Health and Wellness, Dr. Morais Guy, MP, says the Cabinet in general and the Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. Christopher Tufton in particular, must take full responsibility for Jamaica’s new COVID crisis and the fifth virus wave, through the highly transmissible Omicron variant, BA2.

WiredJA News Team Health 19 May 2022

JAMAICA | Tufton must take responsibility for 5th COVID Wave says Dr. Morais Guy

CUBA has fully vaccinated 89.8 percent of population

Havana, Apr 28 ( Prensa Latina) The Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) on Thursday reported that 9,944,292 Cubans, accounting for 89.8 percent of the population, have been fully vaccinated against...

Aleynes Palacios Hurtado Health 29 April 2022

CUBA'S Mambisa vaccine candidate meets study expectations

Havana, Apr 27 (Prensa Latina) Mambisa, Cuba's only anti-Covid-19 vaccine candidate administered nasally, managed to get more than 70 percent of the volunteers participating in the clinical study to increase...

WiredJA News Team Health 29 April 2022

JAMAICA | Patient released from Cornwall Regional Hospital after invasion by thugs

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, April 26, 2022 - Normal operation resumed at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St. James today, after persons described as gunmen...

WiredJA News Team Health 27 April 2022

Omicron XE is spreading in the UK – a virologist explains what we know about this hybrid variant

As the COVID pandemic has progressed, we’ve repeatedly seen the arrival of new viral variants. Variants of concern, such as delta and omicron, are versions of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that...

Grace C Roberts, University of Leeds Health 15 April 2022

JAMAICA | PNP Opposed to removing COVID-19 test requirements for entry to Jamaica

Kingston, Jamaica, April 14, 2022: Shadow Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Morais Guy, M.P., says the People’s National Party (PNP) is opposed to removing the COVID-19 pre-test requirement for...

WiredJA News Team Health 15 April 2022

INDIA | WHO to launch Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of India on Friday signed an agreement to establish Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar,Gujarat, on April 21, 2022

WiredJA News Team Health 26 March 2022

JAMAICA | Medical Fraternity questions full withdrawal of COVID-19 Restrictions

KINGSTON, March 18, 2022 - The Government's withdrawal of measures under the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA) announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Thursday has not gone down very...

WiredJA News Team Health 19 March 2022

JAMAICA | SARS-CoV-2 virus Travel Requirements Eased as of March 1

KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 2022 — Effective March 1, the requirement to obtain a travel authorisation through the JAMCOVID or Visit Jamaica platforms will be eliminated. So says Prime Minister Andrew...

WiredJA News Team Health 25 February 2022

JAMAICA | $1.1 Billion Allocated To Complete Repairs At Cornwall Regional Hospital

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, February 2022 -The Government will be spending more than $1.1 billion to complete several aspects of the St. James-based Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), under its redevelopment project.

WiredJA News Team Health 25 February 2022

More Than 21 Million Caribbean Residents Fully Vaccinated

More than 21 million of the nearly 700 million residents of the Americas who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19) are from the Caribbean, reports Pan American Health...

WiredJA News Team Health 25 February 2022

CUBA to donate 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to low-income nations

HAVANA, January 26 (RHC)-- At a briefing convened by Progressive International (PI) on Tuesday, representatives from Cuba's biotechnology community explained their plan to deliver 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to...

Radio Havana Cuba -RHC Health 27 January 2022

CUBA expects WHO to approve its Abdala vaccine against COVID-19 this year

HAVANA, Jan. 26 (RHC)-- Cuba expects the World Health Organization (WHO) to endorse this year the Abdala anticovid vaccine, manufactured in Cuba, for emergency use, which would facilitate its export.

Radio Havana Cuba -RHC Health 27 January 2022

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