Trinidad and Tobago now has 100 confirmed Covid-19 cases. The Ministry of Health revealed the figure this morning, after two ‘close contacts of a Covid-19 patient’ tested positive last night. As of this morning, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) tested 722 samples. There have been six deaths related to …
Read More »Carnival didn’t bring Covid-19! T&T borders stay closed until 30 April—along with bars, churches and doubles vendors
National Security Minister Stuart Young confirmed today that Trinidad and Tobago’s borders as well as bars, clubs, theatres, betting houses, churches and dining-in areas at restaurants will remain closed until 30 April 2020. Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh made the amendment to the Public Health [2019 Novel Coronavirus] Regulations yesterday. The …
Read More »Death number six: MoH investigating deceased who needed ‘immediate emergency care’
For the first time, the Ministry of Health said it was stumped about a deceased patient as Trinidad and Tobago suffered its sixth fatality today from the novel coronavirus Covid-19. A release tonight revealed that ‘further epidemiological investigation [is] required’ about the deceased since ‘information was not available from the …
Read More »Update: T&T gets four more positive cases, which takes total to 94
Trinidad and Tobago had four more confirmed cases of new coronavirus Covid-19 today, which brings the total figure to 94 from 638 samples tested by the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA). There have been five deaths and one discharge so far. The Ministry of Health said two of today’s four …
Read More »Health ministry reveals Covid-19 map data, 388 prisoners proposed for release
“Today marks an inflection point, a turning point, with how we treat with Covid-19,” said Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh at today’s press conference. “If we as a society heed the warnings of the prime minister, the minister of health, the chief medical officer, the commissioner of police, civil society; and …
Read More »Update: No State of Emergency, prison population reduction and 1,000 tests per day
“If I have a problem, as a public officer and prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, it has to be that I have this confidence,” said Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, “that the vast majority of our people are right thinking and reasonable people and will understand—once they are informed …
Read More »‘T&T still mecca for pan’; Author Kim Johnson campaigns to reprint work on steelpan
Author Kim Johnson is on a mission to reprint his 2011 work, The Illustrated Story of Pan. Drawn from more than 600 interviews with pan pioneers, and filled with historical photos, the book documents the history of the steelband movement. Wired868 spoke with author Kim Johnson about his crowdfunding campaign …
Read More »T&T’s suffers fifth Covid-19 death, Health Ministry says deceased was ‘elderly male’
Trinidad and Tobago suffered two Covid-19 related deaths in the last 24 hours, which takes its fatality total to five. The latest death is, according to the Ministry of Health, an ‘elderly male with [a] pre-existing medical condition’. At present, the country has 89 confirmed cases from 586 samples submitted …
Read More »Elderly woman is T&T’s fourth Covid-19 fatality, gov’t confirms ‘local spread’
Trinidad and Tobago lost its fourth citizen to the dreaded novel coronavirus Covid-19 today. The deceased patient, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health, was an ‘elderly female with pre-existing medical conditions’. The woman is believed to have been one of the 73 travellers on the ill-fated Costa …
Read More »Five-a-side! Gov’t reduces public groups but no relief from price-gouging taxi drivers
The Trinidad and Tobago government will amend its public health ordinance today to reduce congregations from 10 to five. National Security Minister Stuart Young made the announcement at this morning’s virtual press conference. The adjustment will be signed off by Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh today. “Persons shall not without reasonable …
Read More »Update: T&T has 85 positive cases of coronavirus, as country enters vital two week stretch
The health ministry recorded four additional confirmed cases of Covid-19 today, as Trinidad and Tobago’s count rose to 85 positive reports from 550 samples. So far, there have been three deaths and one discharge. In two of the confirmed cases, the new coronavirus was spread through close contact with someone …
Read More »CMO: T&T may have local spread, behave like person next to you has Covid-19
Ministry of Health CMO Dr Roshan Parasram warned today that Trinidad and Tobago might now be experiencing low levels of ‘local spread’ of the novel coronavirus Covid-19 and urged persons to treat everyone in their immediate vicinity as though they were infected. As of this morning, the twin island republic …
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