Record number of COVID-19 recoveries for Jamaica

Jamaica has recorded the highest number of recoveries in a day since COVID-19 first visited the island’s shores in March.

The last 24 hours have seen 26 additional Jamaicans recovering from COVID-19, putting the total number of recoveries at 171, up from 145 a day earlier.

This 171 puts the island’s recovery rate at 32.3% even as there are currently no seriously ill cases.

Meanwhile, Jamaica has nine new confirmed cases of COVID-19, also in the last 24 hours, putting the total number of cases for the island at 529.

The new cases, who range in age from 17 to 53 years, are:

• Six (6) males recently repatriated from the United Kingdom
• (2 of Portland addresses, 2 of St. Ann addresses, 1 from St. Catherine,
• and 1 from St. Mary);
• One (1) male employee of the workplace cluster in St. Catherine, who is also of an address in that parish;
• One (1) male contact of a confirmed case from the workplace cluster in St. Catherine, who is also of an address in that parish; and
• One (1) male from Kingston and St. Andrew, who is a contact of a confirmed case under investigation.

There are now: 234 confirmed COVID-19 cases related to the workplace cluster in St. Catherine; 50 imported cases; 206 cases that are contacts of confirmed cases; 26 that are local transmission cases not epidemiologically linked; and 13 that are under investigation.

Some 317 or 60% of the confirmed cases are females while 212 or 40% are males. The cases continue to range in age from 2 months to 87 years.

Some 492 samples were tested in the last 24 hours – 193 of those new samples and 299, discharge samples. The 193 new samples tested for COVID-19 bring the total number of samples tested on the island to 9,021.

Of that 9,021, in addition to the 529 positives, there are 8,420 negatives and 72 pending.

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