COVID curfew crackdown for Westmoreland

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COVID curfew crackdown for Westmoreland

A tighter curfew has been imposed on Westmoreland starting Wednesday evening as the parish continues to be plagued by increasing cases of COVID-19, surging hospitalisation, and spike in deaths as a result of the highly contagious virus. The curfew...

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