No new COVID cases for first time in nearly two months

For the first time in 50 days, Jamaica has recorded no new positive cases of COVID-19 on the island even as recoveries rose to 118.

The Ministry of Health and Wellness yesterday reported that the number of new samples tested for COVID-19 in the previous 24 hours was 228, bringing the total number of samples tested on the island to 7,780.

Of that number, there are 7,213 negatives and 58 pending.

The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Jamaica remains at 509. In addition to the 224 cases that are employees of the workplace cluster in St Catherine, there are: 41 imported cases; 193 cases that are contacts of confirmed cases (including 96 that are contacts of employees in the workplace cluster in St Catherine); 24 that are local transmission cases not epidemiologically linked; and 27 that are under investigation.