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Team members of Operation Seek And Save on the job, February 4, 2021. (Picture by Sandy Pitt.) Social Share
Operation Seek and Save was resumed for two additional days – today and tomorrow – as Government seeks to reach those households and communities that were missed in the first exercise.
The programme is a national initiative to assess the extent of households at risk from novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and dengue fever.
In a statement from the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus late this evening, lead coordinator of Operation Seek and Save, Dr Dion Greenidge, head of the Department of Management Studies at Cave Hill, where the data gathering system was designed, said the resumption of the operation will serve to get a more complete picture in relation to COVID-19 and dengue fever.
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Team members of Operation Seek And Save on the job, February 4, 2021. (Picture by Sandy Pitt.) Social Share
Members of the Operation Seek and Save programme are on the job.
Around 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, members of one of the groups tasked with going door-to-door to gather information related to COVID-19 and dengue were spotted in Kingsland, Christ Church.
Other teams were reportedly working in parts of St Michael.
Operation Seek and Save is being undertaken during the February 3 to 17 National Pause, where Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has asked people to pause, reflect, refresh and renew as Government works to bring coronavirus (COVID-19) and dengue under control.