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Lorenzo Hume, Chief Public Health Inspector for Portland
Lorenzo Hume, Chief Public Health Inspector for Portland, has disclosed that one of the five confirmed COVID-19 cases in the parish, was asymptomatic when discovered, raising concern about who the individual may have unknowingly infected.
A person who is asymptomatic does not show symptoms of a virus.
Mr. Hume told a digital meeting of the Portland Municipal Corporation on Thursday that he is particularly worried, as residents of the parish are not practicing physical distancing.
"If that person had infected other persons and they are also asymptomatic, we are in for problem, and that is a concern. So we really want the people to be maintaining the social distancing," he urged.
Meanwhile, Mr. Hume said Portland's first positive coronavirus case is among the 13 individuals who have recovered and been discharged from hospital.
The patient will home quarantine for a further 14 days.
However, he said the other four cases in the parish are being investigated and contact tracing is being done.
Mr. Hume said health workers have been carrying out daily visits to food handling establishments which would have been visited by the confirmed patients and their contacts.
One person is in hospital isolation, one in hospital quarantine and 15 in home quarantine.
Mr. Hume said the COVID-19 cases in the parish have been found in Spring Bank, Hector's River and Breastworks.
According to Mr. Hume, the Portland Public Health Department is monitoring more than 1,000 individuals in the three communities where confirmed coronavirus cases were identified.
Jamaica has 63 cases of the coronavirus.
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