Some 27 peo­ple in To­ba­go have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, but the num­ber of cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions on the is­land con­tin­ues to fall, with the lat­est to­tal be­ing 403 per­sons ac­tive­ly in­fect­ed.

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) is claim­ing that many em­ploy­ees in the pri­vate sec­tor are at risk of los­ing their jobs be­cause of their COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion sta­tus.

No new deaths from COVID-19 have been record­ed in To­ba­go over the past 24 hours, so the is­land’s death toll re­mains at 258 lives lost.

Amidst the grief of los­ing her grand­moth­er, SEA stu­dent Shrishti Ma­haraj sum­moned up the courage and walked in­to her ex­am­i­na­tion room on Thurs­day, de­ter­mined to make her late granny, Ana­soiah Ma­haraj, proud.

Many Amer­i­cans now can get a sec­ond COVID-19 boost­er, but it’s hard to tell who re­al­ly needs an­oth­er shot right now and who could wait.

30-year-old Mar­lon Ma­coon ap­peared be­fore a San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trate yes­ter­day, charged with pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion. He was or­dered to un­der­go a PCR test as he was ex­hibit­ing Covid-19 symp­toms. In­struc­tions were al­so giv­en to have him tak­en to St. Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal as he has a his­to­ry of men­tal ill­ness.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 5 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,746. There are cur­rent­ly 175 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 261 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 7,031.

GENE­VA (AP) — The num­ber of peo­ple killed by the coro­n­avirus surged by more than 40% last week, like­ly due to changes in how COVID-19 deaths were re­port­ed across the Amer­i­c­as and by new­ly ad­just­ed fig­ures from In­dia, ac­cord­ing to a World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion re­port re­leased Wednes­day.

BERLIN (AP) — BioN­Tech, the Ger­man phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­ny that teamed with Pfiz­er to de­vel­op the first wide­ly used COVID-19 vac­cine, on Wednes­day re­port­ed strong quar­ter­ly earn­ings growth on pan­dem­ic-fu­eled de­mand.

An un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son is the lat­est COVID-19 fa­tal­i­ty in To­ba­go over the past 24 hours, mov­ing the is­land’s death toll up to 258. 

BEI­JING (AP) — A two-phase lock­down of Shang­hai’s 26 mil­lion peo­ple is test­ing the lim­its of Chi­na’s hard-line “ze­ro-COVID” strat­e­gy, which is shak­ing mar­kets far be­yond the coun­try’s bor­ders.

On­ly one per­son has test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go over the past 24 hours, with this new in­fec­tion mov­ing the num­ber of cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions on the is­land to 436.