are watching on one spot media.com Health Minister dr. Christopher Tov

Donna's just announced that travel restrictions will be imposed on four

other countries which have cases of the corona virus

dr. Tufton called a media briefing this morning to provide an update and

Jamaica's response to the threat of the virus travel restrictions will now be

placed on Italy South Korea Singapore and Iran but that often said a decision

to place the restrictions was based on a risk assessment of the corona virus in

these countries the government is also reviewing the situation in Japan to

determine if travel restrictions should be placed on that country Jamaica

recently announced a similar restriction and travelled to and from China and as

the kovat 19 coronavirus spread outside the mainland China the Jamaican

government is keeping a close watch on the deadly outbreak the Ministry of

Health is making preparations to unknowns more travel advices which was

just which were just announced while ago is also seeking to increase the number

of quarantine centers across the country the details in this report last month

the Health Ministry issued a travel advisory for persons traveling to and

from China where the corona virus originated and now news has surfaced

that there's an increase in the number of countries with cases of the corona

virus globally more than 80,000 people in about 40 countries have been infected

with the Kovan 19 which emerged in December in an interview with our News

Center on Tuesday health minister dr. Christopher Tufton said his ministry is

closely monitoring the global spread of the virus

he said additional measures will be implemented to prevent it from spreading

to Jamaica we have been on a daily basis monitoring the spread of the virus and

observing the advisories coming out of countries or the multilateral partners

wh1 others as well as assessing our own capacity here in Erie

that the virus is a pandemic it is spreading across the world and it's no

longer about cases imported from China it is no about persons being contracted

within respective countries that is a cause for concern for us because it

means we will not have to take a closer look at those countries that are being

affected and we may have to elevate travel advisory to include some of those

countries so it's um we're looking at no we're having a discussion on it and

you'll hear some better particulars in the desert doctor Tufton says in the

meantime more quarantine centres have been identified however humans cautious

about identifying the locations following the controversy which erupted

when the Saint Joseph's Hospital was chosen we have identified five locations

not all five are upon running and available I think three of the five are

there are two others that needs some work and we're taking steps now to get

that to put those in place yes it is still a quarantine facility that

facility is available if needed it is empty and I know all is increased here

which are the other four I don't want a court country over suffice that you know

listing out your if you so please pardon me for not giving you the specifics

beyond the fact that they are suitable once we put certain things in place Iran

South Korea and Italy have reported the largest number of cases of the deadly

outbreak Italy has risen to four hundred which represents a twenty five percent

surge in 24 hours on Wednesday the World Health Organization said for the first

time the corona virus was spreading faster outside of China burns more TVJ

news meanwhile concerns are being raised in the United States over the testing of

people for the kovat 19 corona virus this follows the first case of community

spread of the virus in California more from the CNN when we're talking about

where you know what is happening with corona virus in this country the idea

that it will start to spread from within communities has been the concern all

along if you public health officials at the CDC they

have said look it's not a question of if but when and as the question now is is

this the point now has this started to happen with this patient as you

mentioned no relevant travel to one of these areas and no known contact with

someone who's infected another concern John is that in many

ways the patient you know for many days had symptoms may have been actually

exposing other people to this virus and did not get tested in part because was

told that did not meet the criteria for testing and keep in mind give you a

little context here in South Korea we've been talking about about South Korea

they've been doing thousands of tests a day on people in South Korea here in the

United States they've done maybe up to a thousand total over the last several

weeks so this has been a concern are we being too strict with who's who's

getting tested here and as a result are we missing people keep in mind you know

you've heard the numbers the vast majority of people of the 60 who are

diagnosed with this infection in this country were people who are expert atria

from this boat the cruise line 14 people were travel or known to be in contact

with travel this is the one patient but but this is at odds with a you know what

we're seeing in many other countries around the world now so have we not been

testing enough in this country and as a result have we missed what could be many

more people who've been diagnosed this infection Parliament's Public Accounts

Committee the PSC is to begin scrutiny of the audit report on a Caribbean

maritime University CMU when it resumes its next sitting next month a March 17

date was set during the PA C meeting on Tuesday opposition committee member

Peter bunting suggested the audit report should be the next thing tackled by the

committee PSC chairman Mark Golding said it did not anticipate any roadblocks to

the move the proposal from member bunting is that we move next to the

special audit report on the carbon maritime Institute governance procure

human resources management and the Prime Minister had at my request given an

undertaking that the government members who have a majority and the committee

would not hinder that process so we don't anticipate any any demur in that

regard the report from the Auditor General's Department has outlined

unsupported payments totaling three hundred and thirty two point nine

million Jamaican dollars and two hundred and ninety three thousand four hundred

and forty five thousand four hundred forty five US dollars it also stated at

weak financial controls allowed for the improper transfer of a hundred and forty

five million Jamaican dollars from the same US bank account to a trust fund

with no accountability for how the money was spent

CMU president professor Fritz panic and for medication Minister will read are

facing criminal charges in relation to some of those matters mr. Reed's wife

Sharon their daughter Cheryl and counsel for the brownstone division Kimber

Lawrence were also arrested and charged with fraud offenses we take a break now

on midday news we'll be right back

welcome back continuing the news company secretary for sim biotin vestments which

trades as carousel minute Lawrence is of the view that the companies again been

unfairly targeted for in last week's raid on offices it once occupied

Eastwood Avenue in st. Andrew mrs. Lawrence says the company ceased

operations last year and transferred network assets to extranet Limited which

no operates from the location she added a carousel stopped operating on a

network in December 2018 the police and Technology Minister favoured Williams

have said the decision was made to conduct a raid at Eastwood Avenue office

after carousel failed to adhere to the cease and desist letters from the

spectrum management authority the SME mrs. Lawrence says she's not aware of

any such breach on a part of a symbiotic investments the government is hitting

back at the opposition over suggestions that it isn't doing anything to protect

the country's agricultural sector Prime Minister Andrew Holness responded at the

Agriculture Show in The Hague yesterday TV J's a Shane masters picks up that

story the country's agriculture sector has been faced with a myriad of

challenges which have caused the decline of a production of some local produce

over the past few years the country have been faced with poor long the drought

and fires on some agricultural lands those issues led the opposition calling

for the government to put in place measures to combat the long term impact

on the sector they contended that if they were in control of a country's

affairs things would be better but Prime Minister Antonis says not so when you

had your turn at the wicked make sure that you do shop with the time that you

have at the wicket don't get into the game get the bath

don't make any runs and when you go back to decrease go talk to the Internet in

the pavilion you have but when they did at the but you never

big neurons he says the government has been taking steps to secure agriculture

but it's not easy he explained why sugar is declining lands are being released

the truth is being released as quickly as we should with alternative crops many

problems why that is the case but a large part of it is that we have not

been able to attract large portion masters TVJ News Wisconsin communities

in mourning after a man killed five people in the latest mass shooting in

the United States we go more to the CNN for more active shooter what reports of

one person shot a territory and armed employee storming a Milwaukee brewing

complex Wednesday gunning down five people we have located five additional

deceased adult victims the victims all worked at Molson Coors

police say the 51 year old man eventually turned the gun on himself

five families six families actually are grieving and will be grieving because of

this horrific act of this individual more than a thousand employees were

working on the sprawling campus when they began receiving texts and email

alerts about an active shooter find a safe place active shooter on campus

police are on scene remain on lockdown dispatch from one fire engine call the

scene a war zone

the names of the victims have not been released nor has the motive of the

shooter we're here on the scene of another American tragedy and an assist

list America tragedy and I hate to say that it's in our backyard once again

this is the 11th mass shooting in our state since 2004

in sports a mystery virus among the horse population that came on a spark

impacted several horses on the 11 race day Ashwin's the program the virus has

also resulted in the rescheduling of the race program which had been slated for

this Saturday Spencer darling was that came on a spot

for the Ashwin's the program and file the support well the virus affected

several of the horses who were slated to run on the Ashwin's the program 122

horses were slated to face a starter 16 of those horses were declared late

non-starters and a 15 of them were said to be having an ailment

we sought an explanation as to exactly what is happening within the host

population at this time from the scene a veterinarian at the Jamaica Racing

Commission doctors at Auburn Bartlett the problem with the horses is that they

were essentially refusing their feeding the grain field however they have been

on the eating grass and they're eating the hay and they're drinking water quite

well it would appear to me as if there is some slight change in the feed which

they respond which they respond to 18 time former champion trainer when the

hosta has been affected as well 16 of his 67 horses I've shown the symptoms of

the virus it started about a week and a half ago without his first league when I

didn't feed me a temperature they had a low-grade temperature but one enough to

be concerned and somebody was showing colicky signs what within our three four

days they got over the all the symptoms of the virus and also other top line

trainers Gary sobriety and Ian Prasad each have 11 on their horses being

affected so I just think it's a it's a bug it's a virus we get it like every

year this time of year we know we've got two reasonable things miss one other be

a little more aggressive we do you know that everybody's getting at the same

time but the first thing that we saw was that horses were bucking off at a feed

some of them were actually leaving feed altogether that happened from last week

Tuesday until this Monday maybe eight of my

horses show that same since Monday I've had three new cases but this is no

and in itself differently horses that have had high temperatures 104 degrees

three of them in all and then this morning

mahogany actually came down with a hundred and three degree temperature

he wasn't eaten before so you know it's it's tough board the virus has affected

a number of the entries for this Saturday's program and as a result that

program has been rescheduled for next Wednesday so the program which had been

set for February 29 will not be contested on March 4 elsewhere on the

Ashwin's the program they feature as fresh wins the trophy for overnight

allowance horses going over a six and a half furlongs went to the even-money

favorite Prince Charles but Prince Charles had to fight off a relentless

stretch drive challenge from wartime and ended up winning in a driving finish

under apprentice Ryan Lewis who had a three timer on the program Prince

Charles came home in one minute 20 flat and won by a short a leaping forward and

Prince Charles strikes the lead inside the final 3/16 I restrain on the rail

grid and in between horses war time out wide el profesor begins to bubble to the

ball in behind them Prince Charles just the leader war time now whirring him

it's Prince Charles and a war time going at it up front El profesor gets room

against the real Prince Charles on war time these two bobbing nose is close