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Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh said that Trinidad and Tobago’s closed borders have ‘saved us’ from having cases of the new UK and South African strains of Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Speaking at the health ministry’s media conference on Covid-19, Deyalsingh said that the new variants of the …

Chief medical officer (CMO) Dr Roshan Parasram advised today that the Ministry of Health would not recommend any relaxations to current Covid-19 restrictions for the month of January, as the government remains vigilant for infections over the Christmas holidays. The Ministry of Health reported 10 new infections today and a …

“[…] The overarching goal is to increase capacity not just in response to the pandemic, but to develop and improve our medical capacity to treat with respiratory diseases, on a whole…” In the following press statement, North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) CEO Davlin Thomas notes the changes made to …

“[…] Notwithstanding the atrocious working conditions and other obstacles, our public healthcare workers have done yeoman’s service in T&T’s greatest time of medical need. They are not to be blamed for the badly broken public health system in which they work… “[…] for T&T, [the Covid-19 vaccine] also gives the …

The Ministry of Health reported 17 new positive cases of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. So far for the month of December, there have been 248 confirmed cases of the virus. In total, the ministry has reported 6,917 positive cases since March. There were, however, no new deaths reported …

Today, the Ministry of Health reported that another elderly man with pre-existing medical conditions has died due to Covid-19. His death takes the death toll to 123. In the health ministry’s media conference, epidemiologist Dr Avery Hinds said that while men make up roughly half of all infections, they account …

The Ministry of Health did not report any deaths due to Covid-19 this week. With a total of 122 deaths from 6,852 confirmed infections since March, the case fatality rate (the number of reported deaths divided by the number of confirmed cases) is 1.78%. In the United States, it is …

Quarantine facilities are almost at maximum levels, according to acting Principal Medical Officer Dr Maryam Richards. The nine activated facilities have a total population of 313. These facilities, which include several hotels, house nationals from state repatriation flights, as well as people entering the country through vessels and chartered flights. …

The first seven days of December saw an average of 15 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus per day. This 7-day average is lower than any other recorded in either November or October. This drop continues the downward trend of new cases observed since September. It remains to be seen …

Trinidad and Tobago will close this week with three deaths due to Covid-19 and 105 new positive cases of the novel coronavirus. The seven-day average is 21 cases per day. Confirmed cases are down nearly 66% from last week’s 306 reported new cases. The Ministry of Health attributed last week’s …

Trinidad and Tobago closes November with 12 deaths and 977 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. This total is an improvement from October, which had 1,161 confirmed cases and 31 deaths. The total number of active cases is now 778. In November, there were two spikes in the number of …

There was a spike in positive cases of the novel coronavirus over the last seven days. The Ministry of Health reported 16 new cases today, Friday 27 November 2020, which took the total for the last seven days to 325. More than a third of these new cases, 122, came …