‘It doesn’t discriminate’
Popular businessman tests positive for COVID-19
Businessman Chris Dehring yesterday revealed that he had tested positive for COVID-19. In an Instagram post, Dehring said that he and his family were fine, and that he only had mild symptoms and was recovering.
“I’ve been in isolation and quarantine for the last seven days and, in fact, I haven’t been to the office in over three months, so nobody there is impacted,” he said.
Dehring said that this is a timely reminder that COVID-19 “impacts everybody”.
“It doesn’t discriminate. So we need to take this thing seriously, we need to sanitise, we need to wash our hands,
SOEs give authority to security forces to detain suspicious persons, enter premises and seize properties without warrants.
The SOEs were rolled out by the Government in nine police divisions. Once arrested under an SOE, persons could be detained for up to 90 days without being charged. we need to wear our masks, we need to social distance,” he said. “We will get through this and we have to get through this together, being our brother’s keeper.”
Meanwhile, Port Maria Mayor Richard Creary, who was diagnosed with COVID19 last week by officials of the health ministry in the parish, has downplayed concerns that his contraction of the virus poses a health risk to staff and clients of the St Mary Municipal Corporation.
“I only came in contact with only one person at the St Mary Municipal Corporation,” said Creary. He said that that person has since been tested. He did not offer any information on the result of that test. “My office is far away from all the other offices. I only went
Commanding Officer of Kingston Eastern, Superintendent Victor Hamilton, said it would not be a challenge for his division to keep track of those considered violence influencers.
“These are persons who were already known to the police, so to monitor them will not be a problem. They were always on the radar,” he said.
Commanding officer of the Westmoreland Police Division, there on Monday and I wasn’t there on Thursday or Friday of the week before. I went there on Monday (last week) for a couple minutes and only one person I came in contact with,” he said. Creary, who is now in self-isolation at home, said that he has been feeling lethargic and has been coughing.
Creary said that he was prompted to undergo a COVID-19 test after not feeling well some time last week. He decided to self-quarantine as a precaution.
He was expected to figure heavily in the JLP’s campaign heading into the September 3 election, including in the key seat of St Mary South East that was snatched from the People’s National Party in an October 2017 by-election.
Superintendent Robert Gordon, said he is focused on protecting the communities to which the violence influencers would be returning.
“These are persons we believe to be in criminal activities so we will continue to monitor those places that we know they operate in to ensure there is no uptick in crime and violence,” he said. “Our presence also serves as some level of reassurance for the wider community.”