COVID-19 Update for Thursday, August 19, 2021
By: , August 20, 2021
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| NEW CASES | 24 HRS | OVERALL | |||
| Confirmed Cases | 556 | 60,488 | |||
| SEX CLASSIFICATION | |||||
| Females | 317 | 34,059 | |||
| Males | 239 | 26,426 | |||
| Under Investigation | 0 | 3 | |||
| AGE RANGE | 65 days to 94 years | 1 day to 108 years | |||
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| PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES | |||||
| Clarendon | 22 | 3,099 | |||
| Hanover | 45 | 1,886 | |||
| Kingston & St. Andrew | 117 | 16,153 | |||
| Manchester | 84 | 3,950 | |||
| Portland | 1 | 1,722 | |||
| St. Ann | 11 | 4,221 | |||
| St. Catherine | 88 | 11,331 | |||
| St. Elizabeth | 62 | 2,590 | |||
| St. James | 69 | 5,919 | |||
| St. Mary | 0 | 1,851 | |||
| St. Thomas | 0 | 2,299 | |||
| Trelawny | 28 | 2,030 | |||
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Westmoreland |
29 | 3,437 | |||
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COVID-19 TESTING |
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| Type of Tests | PCR | Antigen Tests from Public Facilities
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Antigen Tests from Private Facilities | TOTAL | |
| POSITIVES Today
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445 | 95 | 16 | 556 | |
| Cumulative POSITIVES
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53,809 | 3,654 | 3,025 | 60,488 | |
| NEGATIVE today
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855 | All negatives are included in PCR tests | 157 | 1,012 | |
| Cumulative NEGATIVES
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301,594 | 165,561 | 467,155 | ||
| TOTAL TESTS TODAY
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1,300 | 95 | 173 | 1,568 | |
| TOTAL TESTS CUMULATIVE
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355,403 | 3,654 | 168,586 | 527,643 | |
| Positivity Rate[1] | 38.7% | ||||
| DEATHS IN COVID-19 POSITIVE INDIVIDUALS | |||||
| Deaths | 14* | 1,356 | |||
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Coincidental Deaths |
1 | 171 | |||
| Deaths under investigation | 3 | 116 | |||
| RECOVERIES & ACTIVE CASES | |||||
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Recovered |
29 | 47,628 | |||
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Active Cases |
11,126 | ||||
| QUARANTINE MANAGEMENT | |||||
| Number in Facility Quarantine | 3 | ||||
| Number in Home Quarantine | 41,623 | ||||
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HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT
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| Number Hospitalised
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564 | ||||
| Patients Moderately Ill
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123 | ||||
| Patients Severely Ill | 88 | ||||
| Patients Critically Ill | 37 | ||||
| NON-HOSPITAL ISOLATION | |||||
| Step Down Facilities | 1 | ||||
| State Facilities | 10 | ||||
| Home | 10,500 | ||||
| TRANSMISSION STATUS OF COVID-19 CASES | |||||
| Contact of a Confirmed Case | 2 | 2,873 | |||
| Imported | 12 | 1 094 | |||
| Local Transmission (Not Epi Linked) | 0 | 2,973 | |||
| Under Investigation | 542 | 53,312 | |||
| Workplace Cluster | 0 | 236 | |||
*COVID-19 RELATED DEATHS: (August 14-18, 2021)
- A 43-year-old Male from Westmoreland
- A 62-year-old Male from Westmoreland
- A 50-year-old Female from Manchester
- A 94-year-old Male from St. James
- A 57-year-old Male from St. Thomas
- A 70-year-old Male from St. Thomas
- A 57-year-old Male from Clarendon
- A 51-year-old Male from St. Elizabeth
- An 88-year-old Male from St. Elizabeth
- An 89-year-old Female from St. Elizabeth
- A 67-year-old Female from St. Elizabeth
- An 87-year-old Female from St. Ann
- A 93-year-old Female from Hanover
- A 79-year-old Female from Kington & St. Andrew
Clinical Definitions
Moderately Ill: require hospitalization but do not require oxygen supplementation. (Admission may be for non-COVID19 specific conditions.)
Severely Ill: require hospitalization and oxygenation support but not high dependency support (highly specialized staff and/or equipment).
Critically Ill: require hospitalization, oxygenation support and highly specialized staff and/or equipment.
[1] Based on data for RT-PCR and Public Sector COVID Rapid Antigen Testing