Monday, March 22, 2021
BY DESMOND ALLEN AND
VERNON DAVIDSON
Observer executive editors
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| Governor General Sir Patrick Allen getting his COVID-19 vaccine on the first day of the national inoculation programme. |
The Jamaica Observer editorial board yesterday formally endorsed the COVID-19 vaccine, saying that it was the only solution on the immediate horizon to end the novel coronavirus pandemic and return life to normal.
The board's full-throated endorsement of the vaccine is a first by the newspaper, which marked 28 years of existence earlier this month, and is in line with its original mandate from late founder Gordon “Butch” Stewart.
The development marks the journal's concern that widespread doubts being sown by vaccine sceptics could jeopardise national efforts to adequately inoculate Jamaicans against a marauding virus that has claimed 2.7 million lives and sickened 123 million people globally, up to Observer press time.
Lady Allen, GG wife
The health authorities reported that as of yesterday, Jamaica had recorded just over 530 deaths and more than 35,300 cases of the novel coronavirus since last year March. more
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