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A Jamaica Urban Transit Company bus drives towards an automated billboard in St Catherine on Tuesday night. Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced a tighter two-week national curfew set to begin at 8 p.m. today. Photo:
Ricardo Makyn, The Gleaner
KINGSTON, Jamaica (Jamaica Gleaner) – The Government’s imposition of tougher curfew restrictions in the wake of record one-day coronavirus infections has been cast by business interests as a crippling blow to an already tanking economy that would make recovery much harder.
That reaction comes amid an unprecedented surge in infections over the last seven days, climaxing with 403 cases on 8 Feb.