Jamaica has seen a rise in COVID-19 cases with figures showing 528 new cases of COVID-19 from 1,377 samples tested on Saturday.

This constitutes a positivity rate of 34.9 percent.

A one-day-old child was among those who tested positive.

Kingston & St. Andrew accounted for the highest number of new cases with 274, followed by St. Catherine with 86 and St. Thomas with 34.

Jamaica now has a total of 95,177 confirmed cases of respiratory illness.

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Edited by Jesus Chan

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