{"id":7328,"date":"2022-04-25T21:19:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/?p=7328"},"modified":"2022-04-25T21:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:19:27","slug":"residents-on-montserrat-urge-to-be-vigilant-and-protect-themselves-as-local-transmission-of-covid-19-cases-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/?p=7328","title":{"rendered":"Residents on Montserrat urge to be vigilant and protect themselves, as Local Transmission of COVID-19 Cases Rise!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ministry of Health and Social Services is today alerting residents of a sharp increase in cases of COVID-19 on island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cases have been found to be primarily locally transmitted; meaning the infected individuals have no recent travel history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children also appear to be most affected in this current outbreak.Samples have been sent to CARPHA for genomic sequencing to determine the variant in circulation and contract tracing is on-going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents are asked to assist the Ministry in containing this virus by isolating and reporting any flu-like symptoms experienced to the Ministry via telephone numbers 496-7437 or 493-4755.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, residents should be vigilant to protect themselves from the virus by wearing facial coverings and social distancing when in public spaces and by practicing good hand hygiene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/COVID-19-cover-page.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/COVID-19-cover-page-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/COVID-19-cover-page-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/COVID-19-cover-page-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/COVID-19-cover-page-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/COVID-19-cover-page-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/COVID-19-cover-page-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/COVID-19-cover-page-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Unvaccinated individuals are invited to register for Moderna COVID-19 vaccination by contacting the St. John\u2019s Health Centre at 492-5218.The latest COVID-19 figures will be published in the next dashboard, however as of April 23, 2022 there were twelve active cases on island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: GIU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health and Social Services is today alerting residents of a sharp increase in cases of COVID-19 on island. The cases have been found to be primarily locally transmitted; meaning the infected individuals have no recent travel history. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/?p=7328\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7330,"href":"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions\/7330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmca.gov.ms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}