Sandals hands over hotel to help recovering COVID19 patients
Sandals Resorts has given the Jamaican Government access to a 52-room hotel, Sandals Carlyle, as an isolation centres for COVID19 patients who have recovered but still need additional space to be monitored before returning home.
The hotel closed last year after 38 years in the Sandals collection.
Sandals is also providing transportation for healthcare professionals in Western Jamaica and has donated ten handheld thermometers to the Ministry of Health in Jamaica.
The Sandals Foundation, the non-profit charitable arm of Sandals Resorts International, has also donated just over £30,000 to purchase ventilators for hospitals on the island.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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