One

hundred and ninety-five of the Jamaicans in the first batch of 200 cruise ship

workers from Royal Caribbean Cruise’s “Adventure of the Seas” have been cleared

for home quarantine.

The

workers disembarked the ship on Thursday and were administered COVID-19 tests.

Five of those tested have returned positive results for the virus ad will be

placed in a government facility.

A

further two hundred workers who were disembarked and processed on Friday should

know their fates by tomorrow when their results are returned.

The

Royal Caribbean ship docked at the Falmouth Pier in Trelawny with 1,044

Jamaican workers on board. The nationals will be processed in batches of 200,

tested for the coronavirus and transported to the Bahia Principe Hotel in St

Ann until their test results are available.

For

those who test negative and are sent home, they will be required to quarantine

for 14 days and submit to video check-ins by health authorities. Their

locations will also be mapped on the JamCOVID19 app.

Jamaica

has recorded 544 cases of the novel coronavirus which has infected more than

5.2 million people worldwide.