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Some 100 Jamaicans repatriated now under state quarantine

Published:Saturday | May 30, 2020 | 12:00 AM
​Members at the Jamaica Defence Force at the Norman Manley International Airport this morning for the arrival of approximately 100 Jamaicans from the US. The Jamaicans arrived under the government's repatriation programme for citizens stranded overseas due to border restrictions to stem the spread of COVID-19.

Approximately 100 Jamaicans arrived this morning on a JetBlue flight from the United States under the government's repatriation programme for persons displaced due to border restrictions to stem the spread of COVID-19. 

The flight arrived around 9:00 a.m. at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston. 

Those aboard have been taken by Jamaica Urban Transit Company buses to state quarantine. 

The government is repatriating some 5,000 Jamaicans stranded overseas. The measure is to cost some $822 million. 

More than a thousand who were stranded on vessels at sea have already been repatriated. 

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