The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the Min­istry of Health:

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Sat­ur­day 29th Au­gust, 2020:

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19. 22,987

Num­ber of unique pa­tient tests com­plet­ed 20,065

Num­ber of re­peat­ed tests 2,922

Num­ber of sam­ples which have test­ed pos­i­tive at pub­lic and pri­vate fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go 1,577

To­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es 894

Num­ber of deaths 19

Num­ber of per­sons dis­charged 664

The twen­ty-three (23) pos­i­tive cas­es re­port­ed be­low show re­sults from sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od Au­gust 21st to Au­gust 28th, 2020. There­fore, this fig­ure is NOT rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the pos­i­tive cas­es over the last 24 hours on­ly.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing up­date:

· Twen­ty-three (23) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID -19.

· Thir­ty-six (36) per­sons have been dis­charged.

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Hos­pi­tal – (76)

Sev­en hun­dred and eighty-five (785) pa­tients are in home iso­la­tion un­der the con­tin­u­ous mon­i­tor­ing of the re­spec­tive Coun­ty Med­ical Of­fi­cer Health (CMOH) of­fices.

Twen­ty-three (23) new pa­tients will be processed for ad­mis­sion at the dis­cre­tion of the CMOHs.

Cou­va Hos­pi­tal and Mul­ti-Train­ing Fa­cil­i­ty 63 6 (ICU)10 (HDU)

Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal 13

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Step-down / Tran­si­tion Fa­cil­i­ties – (10)

Brook­lyn Fa­cil­i­ty, San­gre Grande 0

Ba­lan­dra 2

Tacarigua 2

UWI, Debe 3

UWI, Cana­da hall 0

UWI, Free­dom hall 0

NA­PA 3