Last Updated on May 4, 2020, 7:56 AM AST by Anthony Morris
The National Surveillance Unit of Jamaica has reported that in the last 24 hours, six new samples have tested positive for COVID-19 disease in Jamaica.
The discovery of these six new cases has brought the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 coronavirus in Jamaica to 469.
These new cases have come forth is while a ninth death in the country due to the COVID-19 disease has been recorded locally.
The deceased who has become the ninth death due to coronavirus in the country was a 72-year-old male who belonged to the Corporate Area.
Out of the six new cases which have recently discovered in the country, there are four male patients and two female patients.
The ages of the new cases range between nine years to 37 years.
All of the six new cases are from St Mary, and all of them are the contacts of a confirmed case.
Presently, Jamaica has 35 imported cases of the virus; 161 cases are the contacts of confirmed cases, while nine cases are the result of local transmission cases which are not epidemiologically-linked; and 264 cases are still under investigation.
A total of 216 out of those 264 cases which are under investigation are linked to a workplace cluster in St Catherine.
Out of the total cases of the COVID-19 disease in Jamaica, around 290 (62 per cent) cases are females, and 179 cases (38 per cent) are male.
The ages of all the confirmed cases in the country range from two months to 87 years.
A total of 418 samples were tested within the past 24 hours at the National Influenza Centre, and have brought the total number of samples tested to date to 5,633, with 469 positive cases and 5,126 negative cases and 38 samples pending.
Four hundred thirty-nine patients are now in isolation, and 88 others have been kept in quarantine at a Government facility.
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