Six (6) New COVID-19 Cases Pushes Confirmed Positives To 684

Posted by Tyrone Reid | 26 Jun, 2020

Jamaica has recorded six new COVID-19 cases, bringing the island’s total number of confirmed cases to 6-hundred and 84.

In a statement, the Health and Wellness Ministry says the new cases include two males and four females from addresses in Westmoreland, St James, Hanover, Trelawny and the Corporate Area.

It says four are imported cases having arrived on flights from the US and two are contacts of confirmed cases.

The Ministry says five additional persons have recovered from the virus, bringing the total number of recoveries to 5-hundred and 26.

It says of the total number of cases, 1-hundred and 71 are imported, 2-hundred and 31 are contacts of confirmed cases and 39 are local transmission cases not epidemiologically linked.

According to the Health and Wellness Ministry, 2-hundred and 36 of the cases are related to the workplace cluster in St. Catherine and 7 are under investigation.

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Tyrone Reid

Tyrone Reid is a multi-award winning investigative journalist, Jamaica’s Journalist of the Year for 2015 and a two-time United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Caribbean Media Award recipient. Reid is undoubtedly in enviable company as his investigative works have been awarded in print, television and radio. He is also the journalist who has won the most individual awards from the coveted Jamaica Broiler’s Group Fair Play Awards. Reid is currently the News and Current Affairs Editor at Nationwide News Network and also one of the Region’s leading investigative journalists.

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