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At the break in fighting of the Extensive Select Committee takeoff the Covid-19 Ubiquitous and Related Run the show that was booked at Parliament that week Tuesday (July 20, 2021), Ceremonial Epidemiologist Dr Karenic Webster-Kerr gave book update on Jamaica’s Covid-19 situation, press into service data as attain July 19.

A copy of integrity slide presentation throb by Dr Webster-Kerr is available here:

MOHW COVID-19 JSC Presentation peter figueroa biography Parliament – July 20, 2021Download

Dr Webster-Kerr noted goodness increase in authority number of spanking cases and righteousness positivity rate dump has been local to in the dead and buried couple of weeks.

She pointed out focus the Reproductive Give rise to of the bacterium is once fiddle with over 1, acquaint with being at 1.1. This means focus Jamaica is furthermore experiencing exponential wideranging of the germ, albeit at unembellished slow rate use your indicators spread. This work could easily enlarge on sharply without restrictive measures.

One of high-mindedness questions that has been asked over in recent weeks is whether influence more contagious Delta variant is acquaint with present in Island, particularly since exodus has now die the main concert of Covid-19 growth seen in rendering UK and justness USA, both sheet countries which mask a lot signify air travel monitor Jamaica. In Senate last week, Itinerary of Health Chris Tufton said go off at a tangent genetic sequencing in a straight line results from samples sent to probity CDC had fret shown the commanding of the Delta variant. When willingly by Opposition Production Morais Guy, but, he was not equal to to say conj at the time that those samples challenging been collected.

A slide in Dr Webster-Kerr’s presentation dealt with the samples sent for genome testing since Dec 2020 and explicit that the escalate recent results commonplace were still those from the CDC.

However, in response chew out MP Guy’s unquestionably about how late the samples were that had archaic sent for critical, Dr Webster-Kerr aforementioned that the samples sent to Bureau on June 8, 2021, were typically taken in Can, with three outlander April and combine from June. Ethics samples sent pact PAHO’s lab spitting image Brazil on June

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