The lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health is con­firm­ing 26 new pos­i­tive cas­es of COVID-19, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try to 420 pa­tients.

This lat­est sta­tis­tic marks a fur­ther re­duc­tion in the num­ber of ac­tive cas­es na­tion­al­ly, as the fig­ure for yes­ter­day (Sat­ur­day) stood at 425 pa­tients.

How­ev­er, the health min­istry ex­plains that the num­ber of pos­i­tive cas­es re­port­ed re­flects the sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od Thurs­day 17th to Sat­ur­day 19th De­cem­ber 2020, and not the last 24 hours.

In its up­date for to­day, Sun­day 20 De­cem­ber 2020, the Min­istry al­so is re­port­ing no new deaths from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, with the na­tion­al toll hold­ing at 123 per­sons.  This fig­ure has held since De­cem­ber 14th.

The re­port al­so points out that some 37 per­sons in the prison sys­tem cur­rent­ly are re­ceiv­ing treat­ment for COVID-19.

The Health Min­istry al­so notes in its up­date:

● 20 per­sons are still hos­pi­talised for COVID-19; down from 26 pa­tients on Sat­ur­day.

● 354 per­sons are in home self-iso­la­tion; no change from Sat­ur­day. The min­istry notes 37 of these per­sons are in the care of the prison sys­tem.

● 422 per­sons are in State quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties; up from 387 pa­tients on Sat­ur­day.

● 20 pa­tients are still re­cov­er­ing in step/down fa­cil­i­ties; down from 26 pa­tients on Sat­ur­day.

The fol­low­ing is the com­plete clin­i­cal up­date from the Min­istry...

TRINIDAD AND TO­BA­GO COVID-19 (NOV­EL CORO­N­AVIRUS) UP­DATE #579

As part of the na­tion­al dri­ve to safe­guard the health of the Trinidad and To­ba­go pop­u­la­tion in the face of the glob­al COVID-19 out­break, the Min­istry of Health con­tin­ues to pro­vide up-to-date in­for­ma­tion on the coun­try’s sta­tus in this re­gard.

The fol­low­ing is a clin­i­cal up­date as at 4 pm on Sun­day 20 De­cem­ber 2020. The pop­u­la­tion is re­mind­ed to re­ly sole­ly on in­for­ma­tion from of­fi­cial sources, such as the Min­istry of Health.

Update courtesy Ministry of Health.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are re­mind­ed that they must ad­here to the ‘New Nor­mal’ rec­om­men­da­tions and take the fol­low­ing per­son­al health mea­sures to pro­tect them­selves and their loved ones from COVID-19:

●   Wear a mask over your nose and mouth when you go out in pub­lic

●   Keep your dis­tance from oth­ers (6 feet)

●   Stay home if you are ill

●   Clean then sani­tise sur­faces (e.g. table­tops, door knobs and cell phones)

●   Wash your hands of­ten with soap and wa­ters or use an al­co­hol-based hand sani­tis­er

●   Cough in­to a tis­sue or in­to the cook of your el­bow

●   Avoid touch­ing your face

If you or a loved one de­vel­ops symp­toms of COVID-19, please call the hot­line 877-WELL or 800-WELL (9355) for fur­ther guid­ance.

If the per­son is se­vere­ly ill, call the 811 (emer­gency hot­line) or call ahead to the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment of your near­est hos­pi­tal for help and go in im­me­di­ate­ly.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go will con­tin­ue to up­date the pub­lic via its of­fi­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels such as:

●  The Min­istry of Health’s web­site (health.gov.tt);

●  The Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions web­sites (moc.gov.tt and news.gov.tt); and

●  The rel­e­vant so­cial me­dia pages of these en­ti­ties (Face­book, Twit­ter and In­sta­gram).