110-y-o urges Jamaicans to take COVID shot

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110-y-o urges Jamaicans to take COVID shot

A Jamaican centenarian who became the oldest person in Scarborough, Ontario, to get the COVID-19 vaccine has urged her compatriots in her island home to get the life-saving shot. Dora Skeen, 110, got her first dose of the COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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