PM insists on vaccine as virus-testing machine commissioned
Oct 23rd, 2021 | Category: Special Reports | 7:59#JamaicaGleaner OCTOBER 23, 2021: Prime Minister has reinforced COVID vaccination as part of the national response amid fears that thousands of doses will have to be dumped because of low take up. He was speaking at the University Hospital of the West Indies during the commissioning of the new Genome Sequencing Machine which will be used for the testing of viruses.
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