Last Updated on April 26, 2020, 9:13 AM AST by Anthony Morris
There are 305 confirmed cases of the Coronavirus Disease COVID-19 in Jamaica, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has reached to 305 with an addition of 17 new cases over the past 24 hours.
The 17 new positive cases include 6 males patients and 11 female patients.
Sixteen out of the 17 new cases range in age from 21 to 59 years.
Additional information regarding the 7th new case of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 will be made available later.
Further, 12 out of the 17 new cases are the employees in the workplace cluster in St Catherine, one case is the contact of a confirmed employee, two others are the contacts of a confirmed case, and two (2) other cases are under investigation
167 cases out of the total 305 confirmed cases to date in the country are employees in the workplace cluster in St Catherine.
The number of imported cases of the novel coronavirus in the country is 34 now, whereas 9 other cases are a result of local transmission.
70 cases are the contacts of a previously confirmed case.
167 cases are a result of local transmission related to workplace cluster.
Apart from all these cases, 25 other cases are still under investigation.
2,868 samples have been tested in Jamaica so far, and 351 new samples have been tested over the last 24 hours in the Caribbean nation.
Out of the total 2,868 tests which were done, in addition to the 305 results that have returned positive results, 2,552 cases have tested negative while 11 others are pending.
Presently, there are 314 persons who have been kept in isolation and other 92 persons who have been kept in quarantine in a Government facility.
Coronavirus has already caused seven deaths in the country.
The positive fact in the whole scenario is that twenty-eight (28) persons have recovered from the COVID-19 coronavirus.
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