Last Updated on July 12, 2020, 7:28 AM AST by Anthony Morris
Five new cases of COVID-19 coronavirus have been recorded in Jamaica along with ten additional recoveries from the COVID-19 disease which has taken the whole world under its impact in the past 24 hours.
The total number of confirmed cases of the lethal and deadly COVID-19 coronavirus is now up to 758 while the number of recoveries from the disease has moved to 615.
Three out of the new positive cases are males, and two cases are of females, and their ages range between 22 to 45 years.
All of the five new cases are imported cases with addresses in Kingston and St. Andrew (1), St. Catherine (2), St. Elizabeth (1) and St. James (1).
All of these five new cases of COVID-19 in Jamaica arrived in the country via flights which came in from the United States.
Jamaica now has 240 imported cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus while 236 cases of the COVID-19 disease are contacts of confirmed cases.
Thirty-nine cases of the novel coronavirus in Jamaica are the results of local transmission not epidemiologically linked; 236 cases of the lethal disease are related to the St. Catherine workplace cluster and 7 cases are still under investigation.
Out of the 758 confirmed cases, 56% pr 426 are females, and 44% or 332 cases are males.
The ages of the confirmed cases range from 2 months to 87 years.
Further, of the 758 confirmed cases, in addition to the 615 or 81.1% who have recovered, 10 or 1.3% have died, and 19 or 2.5% have repatriated.
There are presently 114 or 15% active cases under observation in Jamaica, with no moderately or critically ill cases among them.
The tally of testing numbers in Jamaica now stands at 28,088, with 27,272 test results being negative and 758 tests results being positive, and additionally, 58 results are still pending.
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