There were no new COVID-19 death re­port­ed in To­ba­go last week, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est week­ly up­date, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od Sun­day 16 to Sat­ur­day 22 Oc­to­ber 2022, from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

As such, the is­land’s death toll from the dis­ease re­mains at 286, as at Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 22.

Pri­or to Sat­ur­day last, there was one COVID-19-re­lat­ed death—that of an un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son—dur­ing the week of Oc­to­ber 9 to 15, 2022.

In ad­di­tion, the THA Health Di­vi­sion re­port notes 10 more peo­ple test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go, last week. The num­ber of ac­tive in­fec­tions, as at Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 22, was 53. This rep­re­sents a slight in­crease from the pre­vi­ous week (9-15 Oc­to­ber 2022), at which time there were 47 ac­tive cas­es.

In terms of hos­pi­tal­i­sa­tions for COVID-19, the Health Di­vi­sion re­ports that six peo­ple are hos­pi­talised, four of whom have not been vac­ci­nat­ed against the dis­ease, while the re­main­ing two pa­tients are said to be ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed.

The To­ba­go COVID-19 up­date al­so re­ports that pa­tients con­tin­ue to sur­vive the dis­ease as four peo­ple were cer­ti­fied as re­cov­ered from COVID-19 dur­ing the pe­ri­od Oc­to­ber 16 to 22, 2022.

A to­tal of 10,896 in To­ba­go have re­cov­ered from COVID-19 since March 2020—up from 10,892 the pre­vi­ous week.