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New Curfew Hours

The nightly island wide curfew will begin 8:00pm and end at 5:00am effective September 8, 2020 and ending on the morning of September 23, 2020.

Public Gatherings have been reduced to 15 persons.

Persons 70 years and older are required to stay at home but are permitted to leave home once per day for food, exercise or other essentials.

Regrettably, the MOHW confirms (1) new COVID- 19 related death. The deceased is an 83-year-old female, who also suffered from hypertension and diabetes. She was from a Manchester address. We express condolences to the family of the deceased.

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The total number of deaths from COVID-19 is now 34 (1.1 %).

Three additional cases were coincidental deaths of COVID-19 positive individuals, and five more deaths in COVID-19 positive individuals are currently under investigation.

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CURRENT NUMBERS

Jamaica’s confirmed COVID-19 cases are now up to 3,183 with the addition of 80 new positives in the last 24 hours.

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Recoveries have also increased by 16, bring the total number of persons, who have recovered and have been released from care to 974 (30.6%.)

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Of the 80 newly confirmed cases, there are: 47 females and 32 males, with one sex classification currently being investigated. Their ages range from 6 months to 87 years.

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The cases were recorded in Kingston and St. Andrew (32), St. Catherine (25), St. Thomas (11), Portland (6), St. Mary (3), Manchester (2) and Westmorland (1).

All 80 cases are under investigation.

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Based on our modeling as mentioned before, 1.5 million Jamaicans are expected to contract COVID 19. A minority of these positives will need hospitalization and the vast majority will have to home quarantine.

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ACTIVE CASES

There are currently 2,096 (65.8%) active cases being monitored.

71 (4.4%) have returned to their countries of origin while 34 (1.1%) have died and there have been three cases of coincidental death.

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CLASSIFICATIONS

There are:
• 459 imported cases
• 675 cases that are contacts of confirmed cases;
• 236 cases are related to the workplace cluster in St. Catherine,
• 243 are local transmissions (not epidemiologically linked), and
• 1,570 cases are under investigation.

GENDER BREAKDOWN

Some 1,746 (55 %) of all cases are females and 1,433 (45%) are males.

The sex classification of 4 cases are being investigated.

The ages of all confirmed cases range from 13 days to 97 years

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STATE AND HOME QUARANTINE

There are now 7 persons in facility quarantine.

There are 26,533 in home quarantine.

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TESTING

The island’s testing numbers are now up to 63,890, with 638 new samples tested in the last 24 hours.

In addition to the now 3,183 positives, there are 60,604 negatives and 103 pending.

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The public health system started at 18 ventilators and we’re now at 118. Less than 10% of them are being used, therefore we have significant capacity at this time.

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Updated Measures 👇👇👇

Effective Tuesday, September 8, 2020.
 
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The islandwide curfew time will be 8pm starting September 8, 2020 at 8pm ending at 5am daily - until 5am September 23, 2020.

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