Sev­en more peo­ple—five el­der­ly men, and two mid­dle-aged men—have lost their lives to COVID-19, while an­oth­er 355 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter has is­sued a state­ment re­port­ing that a mem­ber of the team sup­port­ing the Prime Min­is­ter’s del­e­ga­tion to Do­ha, Qatar, has test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19, af­ter test­ing neg­a­tive on two PCR tests.

There are 17 ad­di­tion­al COVID-19 cas­es in To­ba­go, bring­ing the is­land’s cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions to 271, ac­cord­ing to the up­date for Sun­day 20th Feb­ru­ary 2022, re­leased by the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA). 

The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has con­firmed that At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, Faris Al Rawi MP, has test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19, and cur­rent­ly is in quar­an­tine, but con­tin­u­ing to work.

Five more peo­ple—two el­der­ly men, two el­der­ly women and one mid­dle-aged man—have lost their lives to COVID-19, while an­oth­er 564 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

 T&T record­ed 440 new pos­i­tive COVID-19 cas­es with an ad­di­tion­al nine deaths yes­ter­day.

Four more peo­ple—three el­der­ly men and one el­der­ly woman—have lost their lives to COVID-19, while an­oth­er 624 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health. 

The in­ves­tiga­tive com­mit­tee ap­point­ed by the Prime Min­is­ter to re­port on COVID-19 pa­tient care and out­comes has giv­en the par­al­lel health­care sys­tem a pass­ing grade. How­ev­er, it raised con­cerns about staff short­ages and burnout.

The Min­istry of Health (MoH) is launch­ing its COVID-19 Vac­ci­na­tion Dri­ve in Sec­ondary Schools on Mon­day 21 Feb­ru­ary 2022, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion (MoE).

(AP) — The na­tion’s lead­ing health of­fi­cials said Wednes­day that the U.S. is mov­ing clos­er to the point that COVID-19 is no longer a “con­stant cri­sis” as more cities, busi­ness­es and sports venues be­gan lift­ing pan­dem­ic re­stric­tions around the coun­try.

An un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son is the lat­est COVID-19 death in To­ba­go, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of deaths on the is­land to 239. The last time a COVID-19 death was re­port­ed in To­ba­go was on Tues­day Feb­ru­ary 8th.

BRUS­SELS (AP) — The first African coun­tries se­lect­ed to re­ceive the tech­nol­o­gy nec­es­sary to pro­duce mR­NA vac­cines against COVID-19 are Egypt, Kenya, Nige­ria, Sene­gal, South Africa and Tunisia, a sum­mit meet­ing of Eu­ro­pean Union and African Union na­tions heard on Fri­day.