Jamaica has now more than the 1,000 COVID-19 cases after 16 new cases were recorded.
Jamaica is the second CARICOM country after Haiti to cross 1,000 COVID-19 cases.
According to the Ministry of Health of Jamaica, 10 out of the 16 new cases are females while six are males, and their ages range between12 years to 42 years.
9 cases out of the 16 new cases are imported cases, and they relate to St James, St Ann Kingston and St Andrew and St Mary.
However, the number of recoveries in the country is 745, 190 active cases and 13 died due to coronavirus.
After a rise in the cases of the virus in Jamaica, Prime minister warned that the complacency can destroy the success gained in controlling COVID-19, which would result in a second and even more dangerous outbreak of the virus across the island.
He said that Jamaica’s success could easily become its failure.
Prime minister stated at a ceremony in St. James on Friday that If the country believes that because it had a low death rate and relatively low number of infection and that the worst time has passed, then it would be like fooling the people and lulling them into a state of complacency, which would bring a second wave of the virus which could potentially be way more dangerous than the first wave.
