There has been one new death from COVID-19 in To­ba­go over the past 24 hours, with the vic­tim be­ing an un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son.  The death toll on the is­land now stands at 248.

The crew aboard the No­ble Ger­ry de Souza drilling ship have been quar­an­tined and iso­lat­ed off the coast of Ch­aguara­mas af­ter a COVID-19 out­break on the ves­sel.

Sev­en­teen (17) more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) for Wednes­day 16th March 2022.  These new in­fec­tions bring the num­ber of cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions on the is­land to 444.

A post-Car­ni­val spike in COVID-19 cas­es was record­ed. How­ev­er, ac­cord­ing to in­for­ma­tion pre­sent­ed by the Min­istry of Health's epi­demi­ol­o­gy di­vi­sion's tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor, Dr Av­ery Hinds, it was not sig­nif­i­cant enough to bur­den the coun­try.

GENE­VA (AP) — The num­ber of new coro­n­avirus deaths re­port­ed world­wide fell by 17% in the last week while COVID-19 in­fec­tions rose, re­vers­ing a de­cline in cas­es that first be­gan in Jan­u­ary, ac­cord­ing to the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion.

TAIPEI, Tai­wan (AP) — Chi­na banned most peo­ple from leav­ing a coro­n­avirus-hit north-east­ern province and mo­bi­lized mil­i­tary re­servists Mon­day as the fast-spread­ing “stealth omi­cron” vari­ant fu­els the coun­try’s biggest out­break since the start of the pan­dem­ic two years ago.

Sev­en (7) more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) for Sun­day 13th March 2022.  These new in­fec­tions bring the num­ber of cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions on the is­land to 386.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — Eight-year-old Brook­lynn Chiles fid­gets on the hos­pi­tal bed as she waits for the nurse at Chil­dren’s Na­tion­al Hos­pi­tal. The white pa­per be­neath her crin­kles as she shifts to look at the med­ical ob­jects in the room. She’s had coro­n­avirus three times, and no one can fig­ure out why.

On the day that five peo­ple died and 325 more were in­fect­ed with COVID-19, Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh broke pro­to­col and hugged Kevin Shade, su­per­vi­sor of the dai­ly paid staff at the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 5 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,681. There are cur­rent­ly 221 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 325 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 17,130.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 3 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,676. There are cur­rent­ly 220 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 543 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 18,800.

PORT­LAND, Ore. (AP) — With COVID-19 case num­bers plum­met­ing, Emi­ly Safrin did some­thing she hadn’t done since the pan­dem­ic be­gan two years ago: She put her fears aside and went to a con­cert.