Last Updated on May 1, 2020, 6:42 AM AST by Anthony Morris
Jamaica has discovered 26 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) along with one new death due to the disease over the past 24 hours.
The Ministry of Health and Wellness made the revelation regarding the new cases on Thursday evening.
The new cases of COVID-19 coronavirus have brought the number of confirmed cases of the virus in the country to 422, whereas the new coronavirus-related death has brought the death toll in the country to eight.
According to the Ministry of Health, the deceased was a 63-year-old female belonging to St Catherine, and she was a contact of a confirmed case.
Out of the 26 new cases of the virus, nine cases are males while 17 cases are females, and the ages range from eight months to 63 years.
The Ministry noted that three are employees of the Alorcica call centre workplace cluster in St Catherine; nine are contacts of Alorica employees who tested positive, six are contacts of other confirmed cases and eight are under investigation.
There are now 203 confirmed COVID-19 cases related to the Alorica workplace cluster. Their ages range from 18 to 53 years. The cases are comprised of 153 females and 50 males, who are primarily from the parishes of St Catherine and Kingston and St Andrew.
Jamaica now has 35 imported cases, 125 cases are contacts of a confirmed case, nine are local transmission cases not epidemiologically-linked, and 253 are under investigation (203 of those under investigation are linked to the workplace cluster).
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