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Businesses in Grand Cayman are doing their part to assist the community.
Businesses in Grand Cayman are doing their part to assist the community.
Working to mitigate the threats posed by COVID-19, the Utility Regulation and Competition Office (OfReg) has engaged telecommunications service providers to ensure that all mobile and landline calls made to the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) hotline at 949-6555 are free of charge.
With some sector of the economy scaling back in light of the coronavirus outbreak, the government is taking steps to minimise the effect on the transport sector.
The Cayman Islands Government’s temporary restriction on air travel as of 11:59pm on Sunday March 22, 2020 for three weeks due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) threat, will have no effect on Cayman Airways’ air cargo operations from Miami, Florida.
There is no ideal time for a pandemic, but fewer countries are less equipped to deal with the Covid-19 outbreak than crisis-ridden Venezuela, warn doctors and public health experts.
British scientists have warned that up to 250,000 people will die in the UK as a result of the coronavirus outbreak unless more draconian measures are adopted to protect the population.
Cuba is getting creative about facemasks to battle coronavirus.
The Honduras was in a state of near lockdown from Monday after the government decided to send public and private sector workers home, temporarily call off flights, and suspend public transport to halt the spread of the virus.
Millions of people in the Philippines were left confined after the introduction of surprise quarantine measures that have caused chaos in the capital, Manila, as countries across south-east Asia imposed sweeping restrictions in response to a recent wave of coronavirus cases.
Canada has closed its borders to all foreign nationals except for US citizens, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled “increasingly aggressive” measures to contain the new coronavirus outbreak and urged people to stay at home.