New record number of COVID-19 recoveries in Jamaica

Jamaica has once again increased the number of COVID-19 recoveries in 24 hours. The new number is 26 an improvement over the 14 recoveries recorded yesterday. There are now a total of 171 recoveries. The recovery rate has also improved to 32.3%.

The celebrations however are dampened by the 9 new positive cases of the coronavirus, putting the number to 529.

The new cases who range in age from 17 to 53 are:

• Six males who are have recently repatriated from the United Kingdom (2 of Portland addresses, 2 of St. Ann addresses, 1 from St. Catherine and 1 from St. Mary);

• One male employee of the workplace cluster who is also from St. Catherine;

• One male contact of a confirmed case from the workplace cluster in St. Catherine, who is also of an address in the same parish;

• One male from Kingston and St. Andrew, who is a contact of a confirmed case under investigation.

There are now:

• 234 confirmed cases related to the workplace cluster in St. Catherine.

• 50 imported cases.

• 206 cases that are contacts of confirmed cases.

• 26 that are local transmission cases not epidemiologically linked.

• 13 that are under investigation.

Some 317 (60%) of the confirmed cases are females while 212 (40%) are males. The age range is between 2 months an 87 years.

Testing

Some 492 samples were tested in the last 24 hours. To date some 9,021 samples have been tested. The results of 72 are pending.