As Jamaica continues its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the MInistry of Health and Wellness yesterday reported that 32 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed, bringing the total number of cases locally to 105.
A release from the MOH revealed that the new confirmed cases were recorded over a 24-hour period, and comprise five males and 27 females, who range in age from 19 to 70 years old. It was additionally highlighted that all the cases are from St Catherine, and Kingston and St Andrew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They bring to 34 the number of cases under investigation. Of the prior and remaining 71 confirmed cases:
\u2022 Thirty-one (31) are imported;
\u2022 Thirty-four (34) are contacts of a confirmed case; and
\u2022 Six (6) are local transmission (not epi linked).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ALORICA INTERVENTION<\/strong> As Jamaica continues its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the MInistry of Health and Wellness yesterday reported that 32 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed, bringing the total number of cases locally to 105. A release from the MOH revealed that the new confirmed cases were recorded over a 24-hour period, and comprise five males […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","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=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Alorica, the Portmore, St. Catherine-based call centre which recently featured as having one of the newer COVID-19 patients, was inspected by the Ministry of Health, with the following findings observed: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A senior team from the Ministry visited the entity at the weekend, and it has since been closed.
Arrangements are now being made for the isolation of the newly confirmed cases.
The Ministry is also working diligently to identify each of their contacts for testing, while investigations continue to identify other possible exposed persons.
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Currently:
\u2022 Twenty (20) persons have recovered;
\u2022 Twenty (20) persons are in quarantine; and
\u2022 Sixty-five (65) are in isolation.
OVERALL TESTING
We have now tested 1,290 samples, including:
\u2022 the 105 confirmed positives; and
\u2022 1,185 negatives.
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St. Catherine – 36 with one death
Kingston & St. Andrew – 21
Clarendon – 14, with one death, 79-y\/o male
Manchester – 9
St. Ann – 7
Portland – 5
St. James – 5
St. Elizabeth – 5
Westmoreland – 2 with one death 41y\/0 male
St. Mary – 1
Hanover – 0, Trelawny – 0, St Thomas – 0
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As has been previously announced, Jamaica is to expand its testing for COVID-19. As part of those expanded testing efforts, the Ministry will, beginning this Friday (April 17, 2020), begin mobile testing for COVID-19 and in two health regions (the Southeast Regional Health Authority\/SERHA and the Northeast Regional Health Authority\/NERHA).<\/li>