{"id":109896,"date":"2020-04-28T08:19:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=109896"},"modified":"2020-04-28T08:19:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:19:04","slug":"jamaica-now-has-364-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/jamaica-now-has-364-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica Now Has 364 COVID-19 Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Minister of Health & Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton has advised that 16 samples tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n

This has brought the total number of confirmed cases in the island to 364.<\/p>

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The 16 new cases are comprised of seven males and nine females, who range in age from three years to 75 years.<\/p>

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Seven of the 16 new cases are employees of the business process outsourcing entity Alorica located in Portmore, St Catherine.<\/p>\n

Fourteen are contacts of a confirmed employee at Alorica, one case is a contact of a confirmed case, and eight cases are under investigation.<\/p>

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182 of the 364 total confirmed cases are employees of Alorica. In addition, there are 37 additional cases connected to contacts of Alorica bringing their overall total to 219.<\/p>\n

Overall, Jamaica now has 34 imported cases; eight cases that are local transmission with no epidemiological link; 182 are local transmission cases related to Alorica; 94 are contacts of a confirmed case and 46 cases are under investigation.<\/p>

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Dr Tufton, in his press briefing at Jamaica House, said that two of the cases announced yesterday (Sunday, April 26) were repeat cases making yesterday’s total 348 and not 350.<\/p>

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