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Monday, February 17, 2025

T&T records first Omicron case

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RISHARD KHAN
1162 days ago
20211213

RISHARD KHAN
Rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

 

The first case of the Omi­cron vari­ant has been de­tect­ed in T&T.

It is an im­port­ed case, which by the Health Min­is­ter's ac­count, should not have been al­lowed to en­ter the coun­try due to a pos­i­tive test pri­or to en­try. He says Port Health was able to pick up on the per­son up­on ar­rival.

Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh said the per­son trav­elled from New York to Pana­ma with a pos­i­tive PCR test and was al­lowed to fly to T&T from there with a neg­a­tive anti­gen test.  PCR tests are al­so the on­ly ap­proved type of test for en­try in­to T&T.

Ac­cord­ing to Min­is­ter Deyals­ingh, the in­for­ma­tion will be sent to the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty to in­ves­ti­gate why the pas­sen­ger was al­lowed to board the flight with a pos­i­tive test re­sult.

He said the per­son was placed in­to iso­la­tion at a step-down fa­cil­i­ty.

COVID-19HealthMinistry of Health


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