141 New COVID-19 Cases Recorded • 42 More Recoveries

Jamaica recorded 141 now confirmed COVID-19 cases within a 24-hour period the Ministry of Health and Wellness has revealed.

These bring the total cases on record for the island to 2,011. Recoveries have increased by 42, bringing total recoveries to 888.

Tho country is now managing 1,032 (51.3%) active cases across the island, including 12 moderately ill patients and four critically ill patients. Some 71 cases recorded in Jamaica have returned to their countries of origin.

Of the newly confirmed cases, there are 86 females and 55 males, with ages ranging from 40 days to 97 years. The cases were recorded in Kingston & St. Andrew (87), St. Catherine (26), Manchester (8), St. James (7), St. Thomas (8) Portland (3), St Elizabeth (1) and Trelawny (1).

Six of the new cases are contacts of confirmed cases, one is a local transmission not epidemiologically linked while the remaining 134 cases are currently under investigation.

 Jamaica now has 444 imported cases; 571 cases that are contacts of confirmed cases; 189 local transmission cases not epidemiologically linked; 236 related to the workplace cluster in St. Catherine and 571 are under investigation.

Females account for 55% (1,108) of all confirmed cases, while the renaming 45% (903) are males. They range in ago from 40 days to 97 years.

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