Fogging for mosquitoes in Region Six has been intensified after residents of New Amsterdam and surrounding communities were affected by swarms of the insect during daylight hours.
Regional Health Officer, Jevaughn Stephens told GINA that fogging would be carried out five days per week. He said fogging started on February 02, along with the distribution of medicated mosquito nets, but because of the lack of resources, all the areas could not be fogged.
Stephens said that a team from the Ministry of Public Health’s Vector Control Services has been sent to the Region to continue the fogging exercise, “We have 10 machines and five vehicles which will be fogging in all the problematic areas. The aim is to ensure over a