Five more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry of Health.  These lat­est deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll to 3,984 lives lost.

(AP) — Lit­tle Fletch­er Pack woke up Mon­day morn­ing and asked: “Is to­day vac­cine day?”  For the 3-year-old from Lex­ing­ton, South Car­oli­na, the an­swer was yes.

The Privy Coun­cil has ruled in favour of the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions em­ployed by Gov­ern­ment to man­age the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos, Mia Amor Mot­t­ley, has test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19, an of­fi­cial state­ment from the Gov­ern­ment In­for­ma­tion Ser­vice of Bar­ba­dos has con­firmed.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 5 ad­di­tion­al COVID-re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,973. There are cur­rent­ly 131 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 132 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 7,519. 

U.S. reg­u­la­tors on Fri­day au­tho­rized the first COVID-19 shots for in­fants and preschool­ers, paving the way for vac­ci­na­tions to be­gin next week.

Sev­en­teen more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go over the past 24 hours. The num­ber of cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions now stands at 248.

One more per­son has test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go over the past 24 hours. The num­ber of cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions now stands at 270.

The num­ber of cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions in To­ba­go now stands at 298, as four more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — Fed­er­al health of­fi­cials said Sun­day that kid-sized dos­es of Pfiz­er’s COVID-19 vac­cines ap­pear to be safe and ef­fec­tive for kids un­der 5, a key step to­ward a long-await­ed de­ci­sion to be­gin vac­ci­nat­ing the youngest Amer­i­can chil­dren.

The num­ber of cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions in To­ba­go now stands at 331, as 12 more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours.

Three more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.  These lat­est deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll to 3,959 lives lost.