April 27, 2021
80 new COVID cases, 3 deaths
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The country recorded 80 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, and three deaths, taking the COVID toll to 45,292, of which 23,348 are active, and the death toll to 770.
The deaths are of a 59-year-old man from Westmoreland, an 80-year-old man, also from Westmoreland, and a 76-year-old man from Portland.
The cases were recorded in Kingston and St Andrew, 28; Manchester, two; St Ann, eight; St Catherine, 11; St Elizabeth, one; St James, six; St Mary, nine; Trelawny, six; and Westmoreland, nine.
At the same time there were 113 recoveries, for a total 20,842. There are 30 patients critically ill in hospital, and a total 219 hospitalised with COVID.
There were 1,271 total tests conducted.
