Just 36 peo­ple are cur­rent­ly in the net­work of hos­pi­tals and step-down fa­cil­i­ties for COVID-19, down from 55, as of yes­ter­day’s week­ly up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

For the sec­ond straight week, there were no new COVID-19 death re­port­ed in To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est week­ly up­date, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od Sun­day 23 to Sat­ur­day 30 Oc­to­ber 2022, from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

The Chi­nese city of Shang­hai start­ed ad­min­is­ter­ing an in­hal­able COVID-19 vac­cine on Wednes­day in what ap­pears to be a world first.

COPEN­HAGEN, Den­mark—As win­ter ap­proach­es, the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion yes­ter­day stressed the im­por­tance of stay­ing vig­i­lant as cas­es of COVID and in­fluen­za rise in Eu­rope, en­cour­ag­ing more peo­ple to get vac­ci­nat­ed.

There were no new COVID-19 death re­port­ed in To­ba­go last week, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est week­ly up­date, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od Sun­day 16 to Sat­ur­day 22 Oc­to­ber 2022, from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

There was one new COVID-19 death re­port­ed in To­ba­go last week—that of an un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son—with the is­land’s death toll from the dis­ease now at 286, as at Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 15.

PA­HO, the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion, has de­nounced a video it warns is a de­lib­er­ate at­tempt to spread mis­in­for­ma­tion about COVID-19 vac­cines that has gone vi­ral in so­cial me­dia, which PA­HO says is us­ing its name and lo­go fraud­u­lent­ly.

There were no new COVID-19 deaths re­port­ed in To­ba­go last week with the is­land’s death toll from the dis­ease re­main­ing at 285, as at Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 8. 

There were no new COVID-19 deaths re­port­ed in To­ba­go last week with the is­land’s death toll from the dis­ease re­main­ing at 285, as at Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 1.

To­day (Fri­day 30 Sep­tem­ber 2022) is the last day par­ents will be able to get a first dose of the pae­di­atric Pfiz­er COVID-19 vac­cine for their 5 to 11-year-old chil­dren.

There were two new COVID-19 deaths in To­ba­go last week, with the de­ceased re­port­ed to be a ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed per­son and an un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son.  This puts the is­land’s death toll from the dis­ease at 285, as at Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 24.

The 2022 edi­tion of Health in the Amer­i­c­as, the flag­ship pub­li­ca­tion of the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO), high­lights the im­pact of COVID-19 on the pop­u­la­tions of the re­gion, which was of­ten the epi­cen­tre of the pan­dem­ic with more than 177 mil­lion cas­es and 2.8 mil­lion deaths.