Last year, I defined the state of public health in the context of the waning impact of the COVID-19 virus and also the longer-term impact of a global pandemic that has disrupted all our lives and challenged our capacity as public health to respond. Today, while COVID-19 is not over, the impact of the Pandemic on our daily lives has diminished significantly and we are moving to a state of recovery of which we can all be proud. Significantly, fewer Jamaicans are being hospitalized and even less persons are dying from the disease. From our last weekly surveillance report, 46 Jamaicans reported COVID-19 infection compared to approximately 9,801 at the peak week of the pandemic in January 2022. We regret that some persons still succumb to the virus with 28 deaths in 2023 alone up to April 25, 2023.
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