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good afternoon and Milton Walker with the Midian you a special welcome if you

are watching on one spot media.com Health Minister dr. Christopher Tov

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Donna's just announced that travel restrictions will be imposed on four

other countries which have cases of the corona virus

dr. Tufton called a media briefing this morning to provide an update and

Jamaica's response to the threat of the virus travel restrictions will now be

placed on Italy South Korea Singapore and Iran but that often said a decision

to place the restrictions was based on a risk assessment of the corona virus in

these countries the government is also reviewing the situation in Japan to

determine if travel restrictions should be placed on that country Jamaica

recently announced a similar restriction and travelled to and from China and as

the kovat 19 coronavirus spread outside the mainland China the Jamaican

government is keeping a close watch on the deadly outbreak the Ministry of

Health is making preparations to unknowns more travel advices which was

just which were just announced while ago is also seeking to increase the number

of quarantine centers across the country the details in this report last month

the Health Ministry issued a travel advisory for persons traveling to and

from China where the corona virus originated and now news has surfaced

that there's an increase in the number of countries with cases of the corona

virus globally more than 80,000 people in about 40 countries have been infected

with the Kovan 19 which emerged in December in an interview with our News

Center on Tuesday health minister dr. Christopher Tufton said his ministry is

closely monitoring the global spread of the virus

he said additional measures will be implemented to prevent it from spreading

to Jamaica we have been on a daily basis monitoring the spread of the virus and

observing the advisories coming out of countries or the multilateral partners

wh1 others as well as assessing our own capacity here in Erie

that the virus is a pandemic it is spreading across the world and it's no

longer about cases imported from China it is no about persons being contracted

within respective countries that is a cause for concern for us because it

means we will not have to take a closer look at those countries that are being

affected and we may have to elevate travel advisory to include some of those

countries so it's um we're looking at no we're having a discussion on it and

you'll hear some better particulars in the desert doctor Tufton says in the

meantime more quarantine centres have been identified however humans cautious

about identifying the locations following the controversy which erupted

when the Saint Joseph's Hospital was chosen we have identified five locations

not all five are upon running and available I think three of the five are

there are two others that needs some work and we're taking steps now to get

that to put those in place yes it is still a quarantine facility that

facility is available if needed it is empty and I know all is increased here

which are the other four I don't want a court country over suffice that you know

listing out your if you so please pardon me for not giving you the specifics

beyond the fact that they are suitable once we put certain things in place Iran

South Korea and Italy have reported the largest number of cases of the deadly

outbreak Italy has risen to four hundred which represents a twenty five percent

surge in 24 hours on Wednesday the World Health Organization said for the first

time the corona virus was spreading faster outside of China burns more TVJ

news meanwhile concerns are being raised in the United States over the testing of

people for the kovat 19 corona virus this follows the first case of community

spread of the virus in California more from the CNN when we're talking about

where you know what is happening with corona virus in this country the idea

that it will start to spread from within communities has been the concern all

along if you public health officials at the CDC they

have said look it's not a question of if but when and as the question now is is

this the point now has this started to happen with this patient as you

mentioned no relevant travel to one of these areas and no known contact with

someone who's infected another concern John is that in many

ways the patient you know for many days had symptoms may have been actually

exposing other people to this virus and did not get tested in part because was

told that did not meet the criteria for testing and keep in mind give you a

little context here in South Korea we've been talking about about South Korea

they've been doing thousands of tests a day on people in South Korea here in the

United States they've done maybe up to a thousand total over the last several

weeks so this has been a concern are we being too strict with who's who's

getting tested here and as a result are we missing people keep in mind you know

you've heard the numbers the vast majority of people of the 60 who are

diagnosed with this infection in this country were people who are expert atria

from this boat the cruise line 14 people were travel or known to be in contact

with travel this is the one patient but but this is at odds with a you know what

we're seeing in many other countries around the world now so have we not been

testing enough in this country and as a result have we missed what could be many

more people who've been diagnosed this infection Parliament's Public Accounts

Committee the PSC is to begin scrutiny of the audit report on a Caribbean

maritime University CMU when it resumes its next sitting next month a March 17

date was set during the PA C meeting on Tuesday opposition committee member

Peter bunting suggested the audit report should be the next thing tackled by the

committee PSC chairman Mark Golding said it did not anticipate any roadblocks to

the move the proposal from member bunting is that we move next to the

special audit report on the carbon maritime Institute governance procure

human resources management and the Prime Minister had at my request given an

undertaking that the government members who have a majority and the committee

would not hinder that process so we don't anticipate any any demur in that

regard the report from the Auditor General's Department has outlined

unsupported payments totaling three hundred and thirty two point nine

million Jamaican dollars and two hundred and ninety three thousand four hundred

and forty five thousand four hundred forty five US dollars it also stated at

weak financial controls allowed for the improper transfer of a hundred and forty

five million Jamaican dollars from the same US bank account to a trust fund

with no accountability for how the money was spent

CMU president professor Fritz panic and for medication Minister will read are

facing criminal charges in relation to some of those matters mr. Reed's wife

Sharon their daughter Cheryl and counsel for the brownstone division Kimber

Lawrence were also arrested and charged with fraud offenses we take a break now

welcome back continuing the news company secretary for sim biotin vestments which

trades as carousel minute Lawrence is of the view that the companies again been

unfairly targeted for in last week's raid on offices it once occupied

Eastwood Avenue in st. Andrew mrs. Lawrence says the company ceased

operations last year and transferred network assets to extranet Limited which

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