The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed in Jamaica on 10 March 2020. This was during the 2019–2020 dengue fever epidemic that affected Latin America and the Caribbean.

On 11 January 2022, Jamaica overtook China in terms of the number of confirmed cases.

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica is part of an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). On 12 January, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, who had initially come to the attention of the WHO on 31 December 2019.^[3][4] Unlike SARS outbreak of 2003, the case fatality ratio for COVID-19 ^[5][6] has been much lower, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.^[7][5]

Timeline

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