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COVID-19 Update: Three More Recoveries…More New Cases Recorded Today

Three additional patients have recovered and have been released from care in the last 24 hours, bringing the total recoveries to 521. (76.8% recovery rate).

In the meantime, Jamaica recorded eight new COVID-19 cases today, representing 1.3% of persons tested in the last 24 hours. This brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Jamaica to 678.

The new cases consist of seven males and one female with ages ranging from 10 to 51 years. Three cases are imported, with two arriving on flights from the USA, and one   from Canada. The five remaining are import-related from cases arriving from the USA recently. The new cases have addresses of residence in St. James (3), Kingston & St. Andrew (4), and St. Elizabeth (1).

Jamaica now has 167 imported cases; 229 cases are contacts of confirmed cases; 39 are local transmission cases not epidemiologically linked; 236 related to the workplace cluster in St. Catherine and seven under investigation.

Some 386 (57%) of all confirmed cases are females and 292 (43%) are males. The ages of all confirmed cases range from 2 months to 87 years.

There are now 147 (21.7%) active cases under observation with no critically or moderately ill patient.

 

Clinical Management Update as at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24, 2020.

Total Samples Tested 22,261
New samples tested in the last 24 hours 603
Discharge samples tested in the last 24 hours 69
Results Positive 678
Results Negative 21,520
Results Pending 63
Deceased 10
Recovered 521
Number in Facility Quarantine 5
Number in Home Quarantine 2,332
Number in Hospital

(Including suspected positive COVID-19 cases)

14
Persons in Facility Isolation 19
Persons in Transitional Facilities 0
Persons in Home Isolation 114
Persons Moderately Ill 0
Persons Critically Ill 0