Eight more cases of the coronavirus - COVID-19 were recorded in Jamaica on Tuesday, pushing the total to 745.
The Ministry of Health & Wellness reported that the new cases consist of five males and three females, with ages ranging from 20 to 52.
Six cases have been classified as imported, having recently arrived on flights from the United States.
The individuals are residing in St. Catherine, St. James, Westmoreland and St. Ann.
The other two cases are contacts of imported cases residing in St. Catherine and St. James.
The health ministry says there are now 121 active coronavirus cases under observation in Jamaica, while 15 cases were repatriated to their country of origin.
Cases soar in America
The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States has now soared above three million as more states report record numbers of new infections, and Florida is facing an imminent shortage of intensive care unit hospital beds.
Health experts and others have reported alarming upswings of daily caseloads in roughly two dozen states over the last two weeks, a sign that efforts to control transmission of the coronavirus have failed in large sections of the country.
According to Reuters, California, Hawaii, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma and Texas on Tuesday shattered their previous daily record highs for new cases.
About 24 states have also reported very high infection rates as a percentage of diagnostic tests conducted over the past week. In Texas alone, the number of hospitalized patients more than doubled in just two weeks.
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