De­spite an ap­peal by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley for un­der­stand­ing and tol­er­ance to­wards per­sons re­cov­er­ing from the nov­el coro­n­avirus (COVID-19), res­i­dents of Brook­lyn Set­tle­ment, San­gre Grande, re­mained adamant yes­ter­day that they do not want them in their com­mu­ni­ty.

As the days go by and the coun­try grap­ples with the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and its im­pact, so too are busi­ness own­ers who are al­so con­cerned about their rev­enue and main­tain­ing the em­ploy­ment of staff.

Health­care work­ers who have been treat­ing per­sons with COVID-19 have al­so test­ed pos­i­tive for the virus, Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram con­firmed yes­ter­day. But one of the CMO’s biggest con­cerns now is pre­vent­ing lo­cal spread.

A po­lice of­fi­cer work­ing with­in the con­fines of Par­lia­ment has test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

Rel­a­tives of the lat­est COVID-19 fa­tal­i­ty are not sure whether he caught the virus be­fore he was sent to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal or not. This is be­cause the Mo­ri­ah man ini­tial­ly sought treat­ment at the in­sti­tu­tion for an­oth­er med­ical is­sue and not the flu-like symp­toms as­so­ci­at­ed with the virus.

While the el­der­ly pop­u­la­tion is the most vul­ner­a­ble group to the de­bil­i­tat­ing ef­fects of COVID-19, the Venezue­lan mi­grant pop­u­la­tion is ar­guably the most vul­ner­a­ble group to the virus’ eco­nom­ic ef­fects.

The wid­ow of To­ba­go’s first COVID-19 vic­tim says her hus­band died and was buried by the State be­fore she got a chance to say good­bye.

Sol­diers were yes­ter­day sent in to as­sist po­lice in keep­ing the peace as prepa­ra­tion on the for­mer Ag­ing at Home build­ing con­tin­ued apace at Bridge Road, Brook­lyn Set­tle­ment, San­gre Grande.

Ari­ma May­or Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian is urg­ing the pub­lic to stop steal­ing the clean­ing agents be­ing dis­pensed at the Ari­ma Mar­ket to help them sani­tise against COVID-19 while us­ing the fa­cil­i­ty.

An ap­peal is be­ing made to mem­bers of the pub­lic to de­sist from spread­ing ru­mours on so­cial me­dia about the coun­try’s fifth COVID-19 fa­tal­i­ty Vic­tor Mooti­ram and his fam­i­ly. A close friend of the fam­i­ly, us­ing her Face­book name Abbey KC, told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that sev­er­al false What­sApp voice notes have been caus­ing Mooti­ram’s fam­i­ly more grief and stress dur­ing this dif­fi­cult time.

Some 14 To­ba­go health­care work­ers who are di­rect­ly in­ter­fac­ing with COVID-19 pos­i­tive pa­tients are cur­rent­ly be­ing housed at an undis­closed fa­cil­i­ty at Sig­nal Hill, ac­cord­ing to Med­ical Chief of Staff Dr Vic­tor Wheel­er.

The Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and Fam­i­ly De­vel­op­ment has es­tab­lished three sep­a­rate iso­la­tion fa­cil­i­ties to house pos­i­tive COVID-19 pa­tients in To­ba­go.