Two New Imported COVID-19 Cases Recorded
By: , June 14, 2020
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As at Sunday (June 14) Jamaica recorded two new imported cases of COVID-19. This brings the total confirmed cases in the island to 617.  At the same time, total recoveries remain at 420 (68.1%).
The new imported cases are a 35-year-old male of a St. James address and a 61-year-old female of a Kingston & St. Andrew address. Both are returned to Jamaica recently from Florida, USA.
Jamaica now has 116 imported cases; 219 cases are contacts of confirmed cases; 39 local transmission cases not epidemiologically linked; 236 related to the workplace cluster in St. Catherine and 7 under investigation.
Some 356 (57.7%) of all confirmed cases are females and 261 (42.3%) are males, with ages ranging from two months to 87 years.
Two critically ill patients are among the 187 (30.3%) active cases currently under observation. There are no moderately ill cases at this time.
With 189 patients in isolation, seven persons-of-interest in government quarantine and 1,499 in home quarantine, the island’s health departments are currently following 854 close contacts of confirmed cases.
Clinical Management Summary as at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 14, 2020
| Total Samples Tested
 |
 16,492 |
| New samples tested in the last 24 hours
 |
345 |
| Discharge samples tested in the last 24 hours
 |
237 |
| Results Positive
 |
617 |
| Results Negative
 |
15,829 |
| Results Pending
 |
46 |
| Deceased
 |
10 |
| Recovered
 |
420 |
| Number in Facility Quarantine
 |
 7 |
| Home Quarantine | 1,499 |
| Persons in Hospitalised Isolation
(Including suspected positive COVID-19 cases) Â |
32 |
| Persons Moderately Ill
 |
0 |
| Persons Critically Ill
 |
2 |
| Persons in Facility Isolation
 |
53 |
| Persons in Home Isolation
 |
101 |
| Persons in Transitional Facilities | 3 |