Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has declared a state of emergency, starting from midnight, with citizens expected to stay indoors between 9pm and 5am unless they are specially exempted essential service providers. There was no immediate timeframe offered for the duration of the measure, which the prime minister described as …
Read More »Dr Gopeesingh: Take Sinopharm or whatever vaccine is available; benefits outweigh risks
“[…] It is a fact that the efficacy among the various Covid-19 vaccines may differ—two jabs of some at least two months apart, will provide safety of about 90-92 per cent of persons, while others will provide up to 75 per cent. “Nevertheless, this strongly outweighs the risks of severe …
Read More »Covid counter: Seven more deaths and 402 new infections from 1,078 tests
The Ministry of Health confirmed seven more deaths related to Covid-19 over the past 24 hours with 402 new infections from 1,078 tests. At present, there are 331 hospitalised persons—the bulk of whom are based in Trinidad. There were a total of 436 beds in Trinidad as of Friday afternoon …
Read More »Deyalsingh: Sinopharm vaccine passed WHO tests; UNC trying to ‘derail’ vaccination drive
“[…] On the basis of all available evidence, the Sinopharm vaccine efficacy is estimated at 78.1% for all age groups 18 years and over. “The erroneous comments made by MP [Dr Roodal] Moonilal that Trinidad and Tobago will be used as guinea pigs only reinforces the MP’s deliberate attempts to …
Read More »Dr Hinds compares Covid crisis to raging fire, as Dr Rowley announces new restrictions
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 …
Read More »Vaccination blues: how T&T’s ‘parallel information system’ is failing its most vulnerable people
“[…] ‘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 …
Read More »Six more deaths as MoH confirms 235 more infections; 278 hospital beds left
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 …
Read More »Daly Bread: Evading reality and the unsafe pathway to our doorsteps
Many of us know that the government is prevaricating and attempting to evade responsibility for what the population generally knows to be realities in plain sight, for example porous borders persistently penetrated by persons fleeing from Venezuela. The condonation of ‘society’ events, which were held—contrary to ministerial and other exhortations—to …
Read More »Noble: Simple, understandable messages needed! The MoH has gone off-key
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 …
Read More »Dr Abdool-Richards: No recorded adverse events linked to AstraZeneca vaccine in T&T
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 …
Read More »Noble: Economic expectations and emotions; T&T’s unique challenges must factor into analyses
The recent utterances of a UWI economist about our economy (‘dire straits’) had me scampering for a Lloyd Best quote: ‘Palpably, we lack the pegs on which to hang ongoing events, and which would allow us to convert arbitrary detail into a systematic pattern, arithmetic into algebra, the specific into …
Read More »Covid counter: More cases this week than in either February or March
Trinidad and Tobago heads into the weekend having recorded 360 new cases of Covid-19 so far this week. That is more than the total number of cases recorded in all of March 2021 (313) and February 2021 (135). The 652 cases confirmed in the first half of April is just …
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