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Loop News The Ministry of Health and Wellness is expressing concern that the n-coronavirus (COVID-19) positivity rate in Jamaica has been increasing over recent weeks. The positivity rate refers to the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases from samples tested. Portfolio Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, said that recently there has been an uptick in the daily positivity rate, noting that up to Wednesday (July 21) it stood at 13.8 per cent with a seven-day average of 9.8 per cent. “From a benchmarking contextual level, you really want that rate to be five per cent or less. The fact that it is moving up is a cause for concern,” he said while addressing a virtual COVID Conversations press briefing on Thursday (July 22). ....
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NCDs, COVID-19 and the way forward
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WITH global attention, at least over the past 15 months, focused on the response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, other health issues have seemingly taken a back seat.
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which accounts for seven of the world s top 10 causes of deaths and kills approximately 41 million people annually an estimated 71 per cent of all deaths globally is one area that must remain at the forefront. Locally, NCDs, which include cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respira ....
Loop News File photo of Health Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton, and Chief Medical Officer, Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie. Health and Wellness Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton, is warning that the highly contagious Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus will likely be soon detected in Jamaica as the island s borders remain open. Based on the interactions that we (Jamaicans) are having as an open society with other geographic spaces that have the Delta variant as a dominant feature of those populations, I believe it is more a matter of time before we detect that variant here, he said. This is the nature of the virus, this is how it spreads, Tufton told Parliament s Joint Select Committee meeting on COVID-19 and other related matters on Tuesday. ....
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Curfew helping to reduce COVID reproductive rate, says Webster Kerr Tuesday, May 18, 2021
KINGSTON, Jamaica National Epidemiologist, Dr Karen Webster Kerr says an analysis has indicated that longer curfew hours help to reduce the reproductive rate of COVID-19, which is a measure of a virus’ transmission.
Dr Webster Kerr was speaking during last Thursday’s COVID-19 press briefing.
A reproductive rate above one indicates an increase in cases, one indicates the disease’s transmission is stable and below indicating a decrease in cases. Jamaica’s positivity rate is cur ....