There has been an­oth­er COVID re­lat­ed death, bring­ing the num­ber to 13. In a press re­lease is­sued this morn­ing, the Min­istry of Health stat­ed the pa­tient is an adult male.

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

The Min­istry of Health re­minds the pop­u­la­tion to source your in­for­ma­tion on­ly from of­fi­cial sources, such as the Min­istry of Health or Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Sat­ur­day 22nd Au­gust, 2020:

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19. 18,735

Num­ber of unique pa­tient tests com­plet­ed 16,459

Num­ber of re­peat­ed tests 2,276

Num­ber of sam­ples which have test­ed pos­i­tive at pub­lic and pri­vate fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go 899

To­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es 721

Num­ber of deaths 13

Num­ber of per­sons dis­charged 165

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing up­date:

The Min­istry of Health re­grets to in­form the pub­lic that there is an ad­di­tion­al COVID-19 re­lat­ed death. The per­son is an adult male. This brings the to­tal num­ber of COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths to 13

· Thir­ty-five (35) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID -19.

· Three (3) per­sons have been dis­charged from the Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal

All es­tab­lished pro­to­cols have been im­ple­ment­ed.

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Hos­pi­tal – (143)

Two hun­dred and two (202) pa­tients are en route/ be­ing ad­mit­ted to hos­pi­tal.

Nine­ty-three (93) new pa­tients will be processed for ad­mis­sion.

Cou­va Hos­pi­tal and Mul­ti-Train­ing Fa­cil­i­ty 1015 (ICU)2 (HDU)

Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal 42

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Step-down / Tran­si­tion Fa­cil­i­ties – (283)

Brook­lyn Fa­cil­i­ty, San­gre Grande 28

Ba­lan­dra 23

Tacarigua 35

UWI, Debe 55

UWI, St Au­gus­tine 136

NA­PA 6