Guests and staff at the Tropik­ist Ho­tel and Re­sort in Crown Point, To­ba­go were placed un­der quar­an­tine yes­ter­day as a trav­eller from Trinidad stay­ing at the ho­tel, test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

Po­lice and sol­diers were keep­ing guard at the en­trance of the ho­tel as health of­fi­cials be­gan car­ry­ing out swab tests on guests.

The ho­tel is­sued a memo to all guests yes­ter­day, say­ing that all in-house din­ing has been sus­pend­ed un­til fur­ther no­tice. It added that guests can still have meals de­liv­ered to their rooms by plac­ing or­ders at the front desk.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 200 peo­ple are af­fect­ed by the lock­down.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment by the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s (THA) Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and Fam­i­ly De­vel­op­ment, the per­son trav­elled to To­ba­go from Trinidad.

The Di­vi­sion said, the per­son was test­ed in Trinidad as part of the on-go­ing com­mu­ni­ty sur­veil­lance test­ing, but jour­neyed to To­ba­go be­fore the re­sults were re­ceived. While in To­ba­go the re­sults re­turned pos­i­tive. As such, the in­di­vid­ual was im­me­di­ate­ly iso­lat­ed.

The Di­vi­sion said the per­son is sta­ble and cur­rent­ly re­ceiv­ing treat­ment at the COVID-19 Treat­ment Fa­cil­i­ty at Fort King George, while con­tact trac­ing was on-go­ing.

Pri­ma­ry con­tacts have al­so been quar­an­tined and were be­ing test­ed for COVID-19 yes­ter­day as well.

This case rep­re­sent­ed the is­land’s sixth and the first in over four months.

On an­oth­er is­sue cir­cu­lat­ing in the pub­lic do­main, the re­lease said, the Of­fice of the Coun­ty Med­ical Of­fi­cer of Health re­ceived a re­port of a pas­sen­ger who ar­rived in To­ba­go on the In­ter-is­land fer­ry on Au­gust 08, 2020, ex­hibit­ing flu-like symp­toms. The in­di­vid­ual was med­ical­ly ex­am­ined and was not found to be ex­hibit­ing any flu-like symp­toms.

The Di­vi­sion and the To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) as­sures the pub­lic that all pro­ce­dures and pro­to­cols are in place for COVID-19, but the pub­lic is re­mind­ed that COVID-19 is not over, so every­one should en­sure they prac­tice all pre­ven­ta­tive mea­sures.

Four new COVID cas­es were an­nounced by the Min­istry of Health yes­ter­day. Three were con­tacts of re­cent­ly pos­i­tive COVID-19 pa­tients and one case was pend­ing epi­demi­o­log­i­cal in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

T&T’s COVID cas­es stood at 279 yes­ter­day. A to­tal of 10,722 were done.

- ↓With re­port­ing by Casan­dra Thomp­son-Forbes