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OUR WORLD-CLASS COVID-19

PUBLIC HEALTH PROTECTION, VIRUS CONTAINMENT,
SOCIAL SUPPORT AND FISCAL STIMULUS PROGRAMME

Our World-Class Covid-19 Public Health lives will be saved in the future if and when we
Protection and Virus Containment, Social Support are returned to Government.
and Fiscal Stimulus Programme
The key is the speed at which we moved, unlike
As international commentators have pointed out, developed countries that waited until their health
no matter how small or under resourced you are care systems were overwhelmed.
as a country, if you act quickly in accordance with
expert medical advice, that gives you
considerable control over a pandemic.

The basic approach to a pandemic is not complex
or new. Testing, tracing and isolation of infected
persons or persons who have come into contact
with infected persons are the only sensible ways
to deal with a dangerous infectious disease.

That is what your PNM Government did. And
many lives have been saved because of our
proactive response to Covid-19 and many more

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