463 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Jamaica

There are now 463 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Jamaica, with the addition of 31 new positives in the last 24 hours.

Of the 31 new cases, there are 11 males and 20 females, with ages ranging from eight years to 72 years. Of the 31 cases, seven are employees of the workplace cluster in St. Catherine, five are contacts of employees of that workplace cluster and 19 are under investigation.

There are now 217 confirmed COVID-19 cases related to the workplace cluster in St. Catherine. They are primarily from the parishes of St. Catherine and Kingston and St. Andrew. 

There are now 35 imported cases; 145 that are contacts of a confirmed case; nine that are local transmission cases not epidemiologically linked; and 274 that are under investigation. Two hundred and seventeen (217) of those under investigation are linked to the workplace cluster in St. C

There are 433 persons in isolation and 88 in quarantine in a Government facility.

Eight persons have died. Thirty-three  persons have recovered.

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