Sec­re­tary of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, As­sem­bly­man Dr. Faith B.Yis­rael, has urged To­bag­o­ni­ans to not be­come com­pla­cent where COVID-19 is con­cerned, even as in­fec­tion rates and death rates ap­pear to be de­clin­ing.

Speak­ing at this week’s me­dia brief­ing fol­low­ing the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil Meet­ing on Wednes­day March 9th, the Health Sec­re­tary called on all To­bag­o­ni­ans to con­tin­ue ad­her­ing to all COVID-19 pro­to­cols.

“En­dem­ic does not mean the pan­dem­ic is over. It sim­ply means that there is a high but con­stant num­ber of cas­es,” Dr. B.Yis­rael ex­plained.

“As the world is slow­ly re­lax­ing COVID-19 guide­lines, in To­ba­go, there will be a re­turn of out­pa­tient clin­ics at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal (SGH).

Dr. B.Yis­rael al­so re­vealed that elec­tive surg­eries will restart, and asked peo­ple to do­nate blood at the SGH's blood bank.  Those in­ter­est­ed in do­nat­ing blood are asked to call the blood bank at 660-4744 (ex­ten­sions 3098 and 3099).

The Health Sec­re­tary al­so gave an up­date on an which in­volved an EHS am­bu­lance, not­ing that on­ly eight am­bu­lances will now have to ser­vice the is­land.

Dr. B.Yis­rael said she was giv­en as­sur­ances that one less am­bu­lance should not af­fect re­sponse time.