CAMILLE McEACH­NIE

The to­tal num­ber of record­ed COVID-19 cas­es in To­ba­go now stands at 70.

This, is ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and Fam­i­ly De­vel­op­ment, which notes that be­tween the pe­ri­od 15 Au­gust and 20 Sep­tem­ber 2020, in par­tic­u­lar, ten peo­ple test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

The Di­vi­sion con­firms that of those 70 cas­es, 11 are ac­tive, while 57 sur­vivors have been dis­charged, and two per­sons died from COVID-19.

Here is the Di­vi­sion's full re­lease.

UP­DATE #45 – CORO­N­AVIRUS DIS­EASE 2019 (COVID-19) IN TO­BA­GO

Wil­son Road, 01st Oc­to­ber, 2020, 2:30pm:

Ten (10) ad­di­tion­al cas­es test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go, which are re­sults from sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od 15th Au­gust – 20th Sep­tem­ber, 2020.

Six (6) of the ad­di­tion­al cas­es have been dis­charged, as they have met the clin­i­cal cri­te­ria for dis­charge, at the time the re­sults were re­ceived. One (1) ad­di­tion­al per­son was al­so dis­charged from the step down fa­cil­i­ty; a to­tal of sev­en (7) dis­charges.

All per­sons await­ing re­sults are treat­ed as pos­i­tive cas­es and the es­tab­lished pro­to­cols are im­ple­ment­ed, which has been the course of ac­tion for the new cas­es that were dis­charged.

The clin­i­cal up­date for To­ba­go is as fol­lows:

● Num­ber of per­sons dis­charged = 57

● Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) and oth­er lo­cal sites to test for COVID-19 = 1,171

● Num­ber of sam­ples that test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 = 70

o Num­ber of ac­tive COVID-19 cas­es = 11

- Num­ber of pa­tients at the COVID-19 Treat­ment Fa­cil­i­ty = 2

- Num­ber of pa­tients at the COVID-19 In­ten­sive Care Unit = 1

- Num­ber of pa­tients at the step-down fa­cil­i­ty = 4

- Num­ber of pa­tients en route to the COVID-19 Treat­ment Fa­cil­i­ty = 4

o Num­ber of deaths = 2

The pub­lic is re­mind­ed to prac­tice all pre­ven­ta­tive and safe­ty mea­sures, which in­clude:

● Wash your hands of­ten with soap and wa­ter for at least 20 sec­onds. If soap and wa­ter are not avail­able, use an al­co­hol-based hand san­i­tiz­er.

● Wear a mask over your nose and mouth when you go out in pub­lic

● Cov­er your cough or sneeze with your flexed el­bow, or with a tis­sue, then throw the tis­sue in the trash and wash your hands.

● Avoid close con­tact with any­one with cold or flu-like symp­toms.

● Stay at home when you are sick and call the hot­line at 800-HEAL (4325).

● Prac­tice phys­i­cal dis­tanc­ing (6 feet away from per­sons).

● Clean and dis­in­fect fre­quent­ly touched ob­jects and sur­faces (door han­dles, cell phones etc.)

If per­sons have flu-like symp­toms, stay at home and call the COVID-19 Hot­line, toll free at 800 HEAL (4325).