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Prime Minister Andrew Holness (second right), stands in front of the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines. From left are Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith; India’s High Commissioner to Jamaica, Rungsung Masakui and Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton. (CMC) Social Share
Kingston – Jamaica received its first shipment of 50 000 doses of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines on Monday.
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, donated by the Government of India, arrived at the Norman Manley International Airport where Prime Minister Andrew Holness accepted the shipment from India’s High Commissioner to Jamaica, Rungsung Masakui.
The Ministry of Health and Wellness also expects some 14 400 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines by Thursday.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has sought to assure Jamaicans that there will be no political interference in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in the country.
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Venesha Phillips and Mark Golding
Controversial People s National Party (PNP) councillor for the Papine Division, Venesha Phillips, criticised her own party on Monday, questioning whether desperate and mad politics were needed as Jamaica continues to grapple with its COVID-19 spike.
Her questions were posed to the PNP following a statement in which Opposition Leader Mark Golding suggested that it was the party s prompting that has brought the prime minister out from hiding .
Responding to Holness extensive presentation, Golding, in the PNP release, stated: I am glad that our prompting has finally brought the Prime Minister out from hiding. He has ignored our (the PNP s) proposals and said nothing much that is new, other than belatedly enacting the requirements for incoming passengers to have a negative COVID-19 test result before travelling. The Opposition has been urging the Government to enact this requirement for many months, he stated.