Jamaica has recorded 17 more recoveries in the last 24 hours. This brings the total number of patients, who have recovered from COVID-19 and have been released from isolation to 385. The country’s recovery rate now stands at 64.7%.
In the meantime, four new samples have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the country’s total confirmed cases to 595.
All four confirmed cases are imported and include three males and one female with ages ranging from 35 – 46 years. Three have addresses of residence in St. Ann and one is a resident of Trelawny. All four had returned on cruise ships – three from Adventure of Seas and one from MS Marina – as part of Jamaica’s controlled re-entry programme.
Jamaica now has 96 imported cases; 217 cases that are contacts of confirmed cases; 27 local transmission cases not epidemiologically linked; 235 cases linked to a workplace cluster and 20 under investigation.
Some 341 (57%) of all confirmed cases are females and 254 (43%) are males, with ages ranging from 2 months to 87 years.
There are 200 (34%) active cases currently under observation with two critically ill cases and no moderately ill case.
Clinical Management Summary as at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, June 5, 2020
|
Total Samples Tested |
13,993 |
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New samples tested in the last 24 hours |
180 |
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Discharge samples tested in the last 24 hours |
124 |
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Results Positive |
595 |
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Results Negative |
13,366 |
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Results Pending |
32 |
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Deceased |
10 |
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Recovered |
385 |
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Number in Facility Quarantine |
40 |
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Number Hospitalised (Including suspected positive COVID-19 cases) |
28 |
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Persons Moderately Ill |
0 |
|
Persons Critically Ill |
2 |
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Persons in Facility Isolation |
76 |
|
Persons in Home Isolation |
86 |
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Persons in Transitional Facilities |
9 |