Last Updated on May 13, 2020, 8:01 AM AST by Anthony Morris
Two new cases of the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 have been recorded in Jamaica over the time of the past 24 hours and has brought the total number of confirmed cases in the island nation to 507.
Meanwhile, at the same time, 10 patients have been released from care and with this, the number of recoveries has now reached 100 in the Caribbean country.
The Ministry of Health and Wellness said in a news release on Tuesday that one out of the two new recorded cases is a 57-year-old female, and the other case is that of a male who is a six-year-old boy.
Both the cases which have been newly recorded belong to Kingston and St Andrew and were the contacts of confirmed cases.
However, currently, there are 192 cases positive with the virus in Jamaica who are contacts of the confirmed cases and they include 95 cases which are the contacts of the employees of the St Catherine workplace cluster.
Meanwhile, there are 224 cases in the country which are the employees at the workplace cluster in St. Catherine.
26 cases are those which are still under investigation.
24 cases of the virus are those which are local transmission cases not epidemiologically linked.
The country now has a total of 41 cases of the novel coronavirus which are imported cases.
Three hundred and four (304) or around 60 per cent of the total number of confirmed cases of the virus in the country are females and 202 or 40 per cent of the total number of cases of the new coronavirus COVID-19 confirmed in Jamaica are males.
The age of these cases ranges from two months to 87 years.
However, the Jamaican Government has made several efforts to curb the spread of the deadly virus which has spread all over the world like a global pandemic, in the island nation which is located in the Caribbean.
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