PHOTO: Lockdown and chilling

April 3, 2021

PHOTO: Lockdown and chilling

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Socially-distant friends Gabre Negus and Ricardo Bent look down an empty Omara Road on Easter Sunday, lockdown day in Jamaica.

The lockdown, instituted by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to curb the spike in COVID-19 cases and increased hospitalisations, continues through to Tuesday morning at 5:00.

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