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 Thurs­day 20th Au­gust, 2020:

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites test­ing for COVID-19. 17,761

Num­ber of unique pa­tient tests com­plet­ed 15,485

Num­ber of re­peat­ed tests 2,276

Num­ber of sam­ples which have test­ed pos­i­tive at pub­lic and pri­vate fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go 730

To­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es 578

Num­ber of deaths 12

Num­ber of per­sons dis­charged 140

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing up­date:

· Forty-four (44) per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID -19.

All es­tab­lished pro­to­cols have been im­ple­ment­ed.

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Hos­pi­tal – (143)

One hun­dred and eigh­teen (118) pa­tients are en route/ be­ing ad­mit­ted to hos­pi­tal.

Eighty (80) new pa­tients will be processed for ad­mis­sion.

Cou­va Hos­pi­tal and Mul­ti-Train­ing Fa­cil­i­ty 93 3 (ICU)1 (HDU)

Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal 50

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Step-down / Tran­si­tion Fa­cil­i­ties – (237)

Brook­lyn Fa­cil­i­ty, San­gre Grande 19

Ba­lan­dra 31

Tacarigua 40

UWI, Debe 60

UWI, St Au­gus­tine 81

NA­PA 6