To­ba­go is re­port­ing one new death—a ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed per­son—from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours.  The is­land’s death toll now stands at 265 lives lost.

(AP) — Mod­er­na on Thurs­day asked U.S. reg­u­la­tors to au­tho­rize low dos­es of its COVID-19 vac­cine for chil­dren younger than 6, a long-await­ed move to­ward po­ten­tial­ly open­ing shots for mil­lions of tots by sum­mer.

Ac­tive COVID-19 cas­es in To­ba­go have dropped to 370 over the past 24 hours, with three (3) new cas­es be­ing record­ed.

To­ba­go is re­port­ing some 63 new pos­i­tive COVID-19 cas­es over the past 24 hours.  The num­ber of cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions on the is­land now stands at 395.

NEW YORK (AP) — Three out of every four U.S. chil­dren have been in­fect­ed with the coro­n­avirus and more than half of all Amer­i­cans had signs of pre­vi­ous in­fec­tions, Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion re­searchers es­ti­mat­ed in a re­port Tues­day.

(AP) — Dr. An­tho­ny Fau­ci has giv­en an up­beat as­sess­ment of the cur­rent state of the coro­n­avirus in the Unit­ed States, say­ing the coun­try is “out of the pan­dem­ic phase” when it comes to new in­fec­tions, hos­pi­tal­iza­tions and deaths, but that it ap­pears to be mak­ing a tran­si­tion to COVID-19 be­com­ing an en­dem­ic dis­ease — oc­cur­ring reg­u­lar­ly in cer­tain ar­eas.

If it wasn't clear enough by Tues­day's 576 new­ly con­firmed COVID-19 cas­es that in­fec­tions are on the rise in the coun­try, the Min­istry of Health is con­firm­ing that the coun­try is now record­ing 85% more dai­ly cas­es on av­er­age, com­pared with two weeks ago.

COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tions are at a crit­i­cal junc­ture as com­pa­nies test whether new ap­proach­es like com­bi­na­tion shots or nasal drops can keep up with a mu­tat­ing coro­n­avirus — even though it’s not clear if changes are need­ed.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 1 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,812. There are cur­rent­ly 147 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 475 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 6,943. 

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Col­or­ful floats and flam­boy­ant dancers are de­light­ing tens of thou­sands jammed in­to Rio de Janeiro’s icon­ic Sam­badrome, putting on a de­layed Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tion af­ter the pan­dem­ic halt­ed the daz­zling dis­plays.

The fi­nal weeks of the col­lege school year have been dis­rupt­ed yet again by COVID-19 as uni­ver­si­ties bring back mask man­dates, switch to on­line class­es and scale back large gath­er­ings in re­sponse to upticks in coro­n­avirus in­fec­tions.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 3 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,811. There are cur­rent­ly 153 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 419 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 6,705.