Two more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), dat­ed Sun­day 3 Ju­ly 2022.

The re­port says the num­ber of cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions now stands at 105.

In ad­di­tion, the THA Health Di­vi­sion re­port says no new deaths have been record­ed over the past 24 hours. 

On Sat­ur­day (Ju­ly 2), the Di­vi­sion re­port­ed an un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son was the lat­est in­di­vid­ual to lose their life to COVID-19 in To­ba­go.  Their death brought the death toll for COVID-19 on the is­land to 272 lives lost.  Be­fore Sat­ur­day, the most re­cent death had been re­port­ed just over a week ago, on Tues­day 28 June 2022, with a ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed per­son iden­ti­fied as the de­ceased on that date.

The To­ba­go COVID-19 up­date for 3 Ju­ly 2022 al­so says that cur­rent­ly, 11 peo­ple are hos­pi­talised with COVID-19.  Six of these pa­tients have not been vac­ci­nat­ed at all against the dis­ease, while the oth­er five pa­tients have been ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed.

The re­port al­so shows that while peo­ple in To­ba­go con­tin­ue to be in­fect­ed with COVID-19, many pre­vi­ous­ly in­fect­ed peo­ple are re­cov­er­ing from the dis­ease, as eight more peo­ple were cer­ti­fied as re­cov­ered from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours.

At present, the to­tal num­ber of peo­ple in To­ba­go who have re­cov­ered from COVID-19 since March 2020 now stands at 9,673.