(Jamaica Gleaner) – There have been four reported deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
The dead are: three men from the Corporate Area, ages 64, 82 and 33; and a 15 year-old girl from St Ann.
This means 756 people have now died from the disease since March last year.
Notwithstanding the deaths, hospitalisations have been declining.There are now 234 people in hospital, 26 of them critically ill.
Yesterday’s positivity rate was 19 per cent, with 225 positive tests from 1,741 samples. The total number of positive cases so far is 44,867.
