Figueroa warns of party COVID spike

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Figueroa warns of party COVID spike

Professor Peter Figueroa, one of Jamaica’s leading epidemiologists, has warned that participants at an impromptu party at Olympic Way in the St Andrew West Central constituency represented by Prime Minister Andrew may have put themselves and others...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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