Jamaica recorded 656 new COVID-19 cases and confirmed another 15 deaths from the disease on Saturday.
Those additional deaths take the total since the start of the pandemic in Jamaica to 1,300.
Westmoreland accounted for nine of the latest confirmed deaths.
There were three in Clarendon, two in St. James and one in Clarendon.
The death toll from COVID-19 is now at one-thousand 300.
The Health Ministry & Wellness, in its release on the matter, said the latest deaths occurred during the period August 5 to 13.
There have now been 57,945 COVID 19 cases in Jamaica since the first confirmation on March 10 last year.
The current positivity rate is 38.4 per cent.
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