PM Andrew Holness says No More Lockdowns

Prime Minister Andrew Holness told the Parliament Tuesday, November 16 there will be no more lockdowns even as the country braces for a potentially worse wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2022.

He says in the post-pandemic era Jamaicans will need to take their own health into consideration noting the vaccine will give people a fighting chance. Holness also lauded his administration for a job well done in managing the pandemic to date.

No more lockdowns! That is the promise made by the Prime Minister as he says the Government is pushing to gradually ease much criticized anti-COVID 19 measures. He notes that the Government is being very cautious when it comes to the reopening of the country.

Holness says despite the continued discontent with the disaster risk management measures, with merely 17.1 percent of the population fully vaccinated, it is the DRMA measures that have kept many safe to date.

However, he insists it is not unusual for pandemics to last this long recalling the cholera outbreak which claimed roughly 10 percent of the population in the 1800s. He commends his administration’s management for fewer lives being loss in this pandemic.

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