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COVID-19 Update for Thursday, March 4, 2021

By: , March 5, 2021
COVID-19 Update for Thursday, March 4, 2021
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NEW CASES 24 HRS OVERALL  
Confirmed Cases 332 24,776  
SEX CLASSIFICATION      
Females 191 13,810  
Males 141 10,963  
Under Investigation 0 3  
AGE RANGE 1 year  to 93 years 1 day to 104 years  
       
PARISH CLASSIFICATION OF NEW CASES      
Clarendon 14 1,391  
Hanover 6 664  
Kingston & St. Andrew 126 7,177  
Manchester 17 1,673  
Portland 5 564  
St. Ann 23 1,633  
St. Catherine 70 4,740  
St. Elizabeth 17 852  
St. James 45 2,772  
St. Mary 2 648  
St. Thomas 3 819  
Trelawny 3 838  
 

Westmoreland

 

1 1,005  
       
COVID-19 TESTING      
Samples Tested

 

1,4791 221,8672 1 includes 551 from Private Sector Antigen Testing

 

2 includes 16,021 from Private Sector Antigen Testing

Discharge samples tested in the last 24 hours

 

31  
Results Positive

 

3323 24,7764 3 includes 68 from Private Sector Antigen Testing

 

4 includes 608 from Private Sector Antigen Testing

 

Public Sector Positivity Rate = 28.4%

 

Private Sector Positivity Rate = 12.3%

 

 

Results Negative

 

1,1475 197,2426 5 includes 483 from Private Sector Antigen Testing

 

6 includes 15,413

from Private Sector Antigen Testing

Results Pending

 

 

0 0  
DEATHS IN COVID-19 POSITIVE INDIVIDUALS      
Deaths

 

7* 443  
Coincidental Deaths

 

0 89  
Deaths under investigation 1 54  
RECOVERIES & ACTIVE CASES      
 

Recovered

 

143 14,012  
 

Active Cases

 

 10,092    
QUARANTINE MANAGEMENT      
Number in Facility Quarantine

 

4    
Number in Home Quarantine

 

19,538    
HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT      
Number Hospitalised

 

270    
Patients Moderately Ill

 

27    
Patients Critically Ill

 

 

23    
NON-HOSPITAL ISOLATION      
Step Down Facilities 0    
State Facilities 22    
Home 9,401    
TRANSMISSION STATUS OF COVID-19 CASES      
Imported 0 708  
Local Transmission (Not Epidemiologically linked) 0 1,222  
Contacts of Confirmed Cases 0 1,995  
Cases Related to the St. Catherine Workplace Cluster 0 236  
Under Investigation 332 20,615  

 

*DEATHS

  • A 56-year-old male from St. James
  • A 64-year-old male from Westmoreland
  • A 32-year-old female from Kingston & St. Andrew
  • A 49-year-old male from Kingston & St. Andrew
  • A 68-year-old male from St. Catherine
  • A 79-year-old female from St. Catherine
  • An 85-year-old female from St. Thomas
Last Updated: March 5, 2021

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