To­ba­go’s COVID-19 test­ing ca­pac­i­ty will soon be ex­pand­ed, thanks to the gen­er­ous do­na­tion of 15,000 anti­gen test kits from the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (PA­HO) / World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WHO). The test kits ar­rived in To­ba­go on Fri­day 21st Jan­u­ary 2022.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion in To­ba­go, the com­mit­ment for this do­na­tion was made at a vir­tu­al meet­ing on 15th De­cem­ber 2021, be­tween As­sem­bly­man Dr. Faith B.Yis­rael, Sec­re­tary of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, Dr. Er­i­ca Wheel­er, PA­HO Area Rep­re­sen­ta­tive and key mem­bers of their re­spec­tive teams.

“This is a sig­nif­i­cant de­vel­op­ment for which we are in­deed grate­ful,” Sec­re­tary B.Yis­rael said, as she thanked Dr. Wheel­er and her team for the do­na­tion.

“These test kits will in­crease our test­ing ca­pac­i­ty and ul­ti­mate­ly im­prove our COVID-19 re­sponse on the Is­land,” she not­ed. “We will def­i­nite­ly put them to good use al­most im­me­di­ate­ly.”