UDC chairman bats for vaccination

Senator Ransford Braham, chairman of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), has urged the staff of the state-run entity to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Braham, who is a survivor of COVID-19, described the suffering from the serious respiratory illness, which has claimed 1,869 in Jamaica, as of Wednesday, as immense.

“It is for that reason that I am urging every family member… every UDC personnel and affiliated person to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Spare yourself from suffering or possible death,” he said.

More than 83,700 Jamaica have been confirmed to have contracted COVID-19. The Government is pushing to vaccinate at least 65 per cent of the country’s nearly three million people by next March in order to minimise the potential for hospitalisation or death from the disease.