Overview
- Authorities are setting up field hospitals in five western parishes after the Category 5 storm damaged multiple medical facilities, the health minister said.
- Power and water service remain widely disrupted, and many gas stations in the west have little or no fuel, according to the transport minister.
- Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay is scheduled to resume commercial flights on Saturday to help fly out visitors and other passengers.
- Roughly 25,000 tourists were on the island when Melissa hit, including a high double-digit number of German nationals, officials said.
- At least 19 deaths have been confirmed in Jamaica with five additional reports under verification, while regional fatalities exceed 50 and the system is no longer a hurricane over the Atlantic.