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THE GLEANER MINUTE: COVID third wave | Hospitals full | 8-y-o murdered | Global warming caution

Aug 9th, 2021 | Category: The Gleaner Minute | 1:56
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AUGUST 9, 2021: Most of Jamaica’s large hospitals are over their capacity for COVID-19 patients while healthcare workers on leave are being summoned back to work … The health ministry says 372,911 Jamaicans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine … The police have intensified their investigation into Sunday’s murder of eight year-old Xavier ‘Bojo’ Phillips in York Town, Clarendon … Overseas: A major United Nations scientific report has warned of increasingly extreme heatwaves, droughts and flooding … IN SPORTS: Usain Bolt has warned Jamaican stars of the Tokyo Olympic Games to know their worth in negotiating with local corporate sponsors who shunned them before the competition.

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