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

As of the af­ter­noon of Tues­day 15th Sep­tem­ber 2020 the Min­istry re­ports the fol­low­ing:

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 27,883

Num­ber of sam­ples which have test­ed pos­i­tive at pub­lic and pri­vate fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go 3,223

To­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es 2,369

Num­ber of deaths 56

Num­ber of per­sons dis­charged 798

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing up­date:

· Forty (40) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID -19.

The forty (40) pos­i­tive cas­es re­port­ed shows re­sults from sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od Sep­tem­ber 4th to Sep­tem­ber 14th, 2020. There­fore, this fig­ure is NOT rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the pos­i­tive cas­es over the last 24 hours on­ly.