{"id":3422,"date":"2020-04-05T15:24:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T15:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2020-04-06T15:28:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T15:28:43","slug":"58-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-in-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3422","title":{"rendered":"58 Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 in Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Influenza Centre has advised that in the last 24 hours, \nthree samples have tested positive for COVID-19. This brings the total \nof confirmed COVID-19 cases in Jamaica to 58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new cases are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7 A 41 year old female from St. Ann with no travel history; her mode of transmission is under investigation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7 A 52 year old male from Portland, with a travel history from Brazil<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00b7 A 41 year old female from Clarendon with a travel history from New York, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are now 30 imported cases, 22 import-related and six cases are \nunder investigation. Some 53% of confirmed cases are male, while 47% are\n female. The average age of the confirmed cases is 50.4 years old, while\n the ages range from 12 to 87 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, an eighth (8th ) patient has recovered and been \nreleased from hospital, while five patients are awaiting a second test \nbefore release from isolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Influenza Centre has advised that in the last 24 hours, three samples have tested positive for COVID-19. This brings the total of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Jamaica to 58. The new cases are: \u00b7 A 41 year old female from St. Ann with no travel history; her mode of transmission is under investigation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3423,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions\/3423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}