PM lifts no-movement Sundays, announces new daily curfew
Published:Tuesday | October 26, 2021 | 9:45 PM
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced the lifting of no-movement Sundays.
Early Saturday curfews will also be lifted.
Instead, there will be a daily curfew from 8 p.m to 5 a.m.
Holness was speaking in Parliament on Tuesday as he announced new COVID containment measures.
They take effect on October 29 and will end on December 10, 2021.
Many other COVID containment measures will remain in force:
*10-person gathering limit
*50-person limit for weddings
*50-person limit for Annual General Meetings
*20-person limit for funerals
*15-person limit for burials
*Work-from-home policy will continue
"Now is not the time for us to have any significant change for how we have been managing this third wave," said Holness.
The prime minister also said he was disappointed with the vaccine take-up but not surprised.
Just around 20 per cent of the population is now vaccinated but Holness has appealed for more people to take the jab, saying it was critical for the return to normal.
"The pandemic can end when the virus kills off enough people in the population such that it cannot reproduce and be a threat. That is the cold hard fact. That is how pandemics have ended in the past without vaccination," he said.
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