Jamaica saw by far its highest one-day increase in COVID-19 infections to date on Monday, with 468 cases confirmed across the country.
The Corporate Area accounted for 172 of the new cases, while the adjoining parish of St. Catherine had 75.
Manchester continues to show a high infection rate as well, with 59 cases among the latest confirmed, followed by St. James with 29 and the adjoining parish of Trelawny, 25.
St. Mary recorded 22 new cases of the virus and St. Elizabeth, 20.
Clarendon registered 19 new cases as well, Westmoreland, 12, St. Ann, 11, and Hanover 10.
The eastern parishes of Portland and St. Thomas had icreases of eight and six, respectively.
The 468 new infections came from 1,503 samples tested, a positivity rate of 31 per cent.
So far there have been 19,773 positive tests from 188,248 samples since Jamaica started testing for the virus, but in recent weeks the positivity rate has been going up significantly.
There are 251 patients in hospital; 49 are moderately ill and 19 are deemed critically ill.
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