Last Updated on May 5, 2020, 7:32 AM AST by Anthony Morris
The Jamaican Health and Wellness Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton confirmed that Jamaica now has 471 cases of COVID-19 coronavirus, with two new positive cases in the last 24 hours.
The two new cases are those of a 12-year-old boy from St Catherine and a 20-year-old female who belongs to Clarendon.
Tufton, while speaking at a digital press conference at Jamaica House, said that 221 out of the total confirmed COVID-19 cases are related to the Alorica call centre in Portmore, St Catherine. The individuals are primarily from the parishes of St Catherine and Kingston and St Andrew, with ages ranging from 18 to 53 years and they include 166 females and 55 males.
At this time, there are 35 imported cases, 168 cases that are contacts of a confirmed case, nine (9) that are local transmission cases not epidemiologically linked, and 221 are connected to the workplace cluster in St. Catherine, and 38 are under investigations, the minister outlined.
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