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Principal medical officer Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards today pointed to the stark data from Trinidad and Tobago’s current grapple with the novel coronavirus, as the government announced its third set of restrictions since the Easter weekend.  Two hospitals, the Couva Hospital and Augustus Long Facility, were at 98% and 100% capacity …

“[…] ‘No, no. Everybody going. My friend took her mother and they give him a vaccine one time and he young’… ‘I just take a chance when they set up in the paddock in the Savanna and it was around 5 in the afternoon and they just take my whole …

The Ministry of Health has vetoed the West Indies Cricket Board’s attempt to host South Africa in Trinidad next month, with chief medical officer Dr Roshan Parasram credited with the final word. The two cricket nations are scheduled to face each other in two Tests and five Twenty20 internationals and …

Trinidad and Tobago suffered six more deaths due to Covid-19 over the last 24 hours, with another 235 confirmed infections and 24 more hospital spaces taken up. The County Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) offices, as always, will determine how many of the newly infected persons require hospitalisation, based initially …

“We want you not to come out if it isn’t absolutely essential,” said Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, “because then you become a part of the problem… Stay at home!” Trinidad and Tobago are set for another series of measures meant to keep citizens at home, in an effort to …

“We don’t want to get to a situation where the level of infection gets so high,” said Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, “[…] and that is where, in local parlance, all falls down.” Dr Rowley announced today the following changes, which go into effect from midnight and remain in place …

The Ministry of Health recorded another two deaths and 151 new infections due to Covid-19 today. Trinidad and Tobago has suffered 161 deaths since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, with 9,947 cases of the novel coronavirus during that period. There are 1,505 active cases in the twin …

Trinidad and Tobago has three more cases of P1, the Brazilian variant of Covid-19. The Ministry of Health confirmed today that the new cases were detected last night at the University of West Indies, during ‘genetic sequencing on Covid-19 positive samples’. The variants were detected in cases from the Caroni, Victoria …

The Ministry of Health reported 167 new cases of Covid-19 today, taking the total number of infected persons since the onset of the pandemic up to 9,383. There have been 1,356 positive cases so far in April from 13,588 unique tests with 15 deaths, which makes it Trinidad and Tobago’s …

Living in the pandemic required us all to rearrange our daily lives in both patient and clever ways. But it has been a long, tiring year.  As we look into the future, there is a growing realisation that Covid-19 will forever shadow us. Consequently, we must decide how much of …

The Ministry of Health continues to assert that no one who has received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in Trinidad and Tobago has had any serious side effect. “At this point in time, after administering over 16,000 vaccines, [the ministry] has no recorded adverse events,” principal medical officer Dr Maryam Abool-Richards said …

The Ministry of Health has reported that the P1 variant of the Sars-Cov-2 virus—the so-called Brazil variant—has been detected in a local Covid-19 positive patient. In a statement to the media, the ministry said that the sample came from the Nariva/Mayaro County and was sequenced at the University of the …