163 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases In Jamaica

Jamaica now has 163 confirmed cases of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), following 20 new additions.

The health ministry will provide details on 17 of the 20 new cases soon. The other three are from St Catherine.

Two of that number are workers — both females, aged 33 and 19 years — of Alorica. The third case is a 42-year-old male who is under investigation.

These three cases bring to 33 the number of imported cases; 39 the contacts of a confirmed case; six (6) the number of local transmissions not epidemiologically linked; and 68 under investigation. Sixty-two (62) of that 68 work at Alorica.

Of those 62 workers, 55 are from St Catherine while four are from Kingston and St Andrew.

There is one case each from Clarendon, St Thomas and Portland.

Two cases are close contacts of Alorica workers and are from Clarendon.

So far, 1,516 samples have been tested:

• 163 are positive; and

• 1,353 are negative.

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