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Medical Officer of Health for Westmoreland, Dr. Marcia Graham, is urging residents of the parish to remain vigilant in protecting themselves against the coronavirus (COVID-19).
She is encouraging persons to stay home if they are feeling sick. She noted that COVID-19 tests can be accessed at the Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital and the Savanna-la-Mar, Whitehouse, and Darliston health centres.
âThe fact of the matter is that getting the vaccine does not prevent you 100 per cent from getting COVID-19 and it does not prevent you, if you are infected, from transmitting the virus. It has, however, been very effective in reducing hospitalisations and deaths. That has been the main benefit of the vaccine; it has saved lives,â she said
Medical Officer of Health for Westmoreland, Dr Marcia Graham, is encouraging persons who have been vaccinated to continue practising the coronavirus (COVID-19) protocols as stipulated by the Government.
“We are encouraging persons to maintain their COVID-19 compliance just as everyone else, in terms of your mask-wearing, consistently and correctly covering the nose and the mouth, practising hand hygiene, cough etiquette and physical distancing,” she said.
“Whether you have received one dose, zero dose, or two doses of the vaccine, those need to be maintained because we are nowhere near herd immunity in our parish [or] in our nation,” Dr Graham said.