2 More COVID-19 Cases Confirmed In Jamaica

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is reporting that two new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the island.

This is following the results from the National Influenza Centre, where 19 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours.

Seventeen (17) of the cases tested were negative. The country now has a total of 10 confirmed cases. One of the new cases was identified through contact tracing relating to the index case (Patient 1), while the second patient presented at hospital with a travel history to Trinidad & Tobago and had symptoms similar to COVID-19.

Both persons were isolated and samples collected and tested.

The seventeen other patients, who tested negative, included persons who are from Kingston and St. Andrew, St Ann and Clarendon and who were identified through contact tracing from confirmed cases, where a similar protocol was observed to isolate and test.

Up to Saturday, March 14, 2020, 27 patients were in isolation facilities. They remain stable, including patients 1 and 2, who no longer have symptoms.

Patients whose test results are negative will be released shortly.

The Ministry wishes to remind all persons, who suspect that they have had exposure to COVID-19 and are displaying symptoms to self-isolate immediately and contact the Ministry of Health & Wellness as 888-ONE-LOVE (663-5683).

Additional numbers to call are 876-542-5998, 876-542-6007 and 876-542-6006.

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