{"id":838,"date":"2021-05-04T10:34:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2023-03-21T13:05:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T17:05:58","slug":"jamaica-cautions-of-possible-third-covid-19-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/04\/jamaica-cautions-of-possible-third-covid-19-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica: Cautions of Possible Third COVID-19 Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19&#8217;s Third Wave Could Be Deadly, According to Jamaica&#8217;s Chief Medical Officer<br \/>\nThe risk of a third and deadlier wave of the COVID-19 virus has been raised in Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>With the country still reeling from the effects of the second wave, Health Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton has warned that the possibility of a third wave should be viewed as a threat.<\/p>\n<p>Although Jamaicans have accepted COVID-19 protocols and instituted rigorous precautions, he believes a third wave would be worse than the first two. &#8220;I just want to advise the public to see this as a continuing concern and the need for us to remain cautious until we can receive the long-term relief that we desire from the vaccine programmer and other measures,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>If another wave of COVID-19 strikes Jamaica, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jaquiline Bisasor McKenzie has warned that cases might double and deaths might rise. The island has confirmed the detection of the UK version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19&#8217;s Third Wave Could Be Deadly, According to Jamaica&#8217;s Chief Medical Officer The risk of a third and deadlier wave of the COVID-19 virus has been raised in Jamaica. With the country still reeling from the effects of the second wave, Health Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton has warned that the possibility of a third wave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[18,21,163],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-diseases","tag-covid-19","tag-jamaica","tag-wave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}