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How COVID-19 cases evolved in Jamaica

A year ago today, Jamaica had only one case of COVID-19. Twelve months later, the figure has ballooned to over 27,000. Over the period, the cases started out incrementally but as the months went by, the number of infections rose with bouts of...

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