SACRA­MEN­TO, Calif. (AP) — Cal­i­for­nia be­came the first state to for­mal­ly shift to an “en­dem­ic” ap­proach to the coro­n­avirus with Gov. Gavin New­som’s an­nounce­ment Thurs­day of a plan that em­pha­sizes pre­ven­tion and quick re­ac­tion to out­breaks over man­dat­ed mask­ing and busi­ness shut­downs.

SE­WA In­ter­na­tion­al Trinidad & To­ba­go (SE­WA TT) has hand­ed over 9,000 KN95 masks to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s Adopt-A-School ini­tia­tive.

Five more peo­ple—two men and three women—have lost their lives to COVID-19, while an­oth­er 410 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.  Dead are two el­der­ly males, and three el­der­ly fe­males.

There are 37 ad­di­tion­al COVID-19 cas­es in To­ba­go, bring­ing the is­land's to­tal in­fec­tions, since March 2020, to 6,940.  

As part of Cana­da’s move to­wards "a more sus­tain­able ap­proach" to man­ag­ing COVID-19 on a long-term ba­sis, ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed trav­ellers will soon have the op­tion to use rapid anti­gen tests to meet pre-en­try re­quire­ments.

The Com­mit­tee in­ves­ti­gat­ing COVID-19 treat­ment with­in the Par­al­lel Health­care Sys­tem and Pa­tient Out­comes has sub­mit­ted its Re­port to the Prime Min­is­ter.

Eleven more peo­ple have test­ed COVID-19 pos­i­tive in To­ba­go over the past 24 hours, but for­tu­nate­ly, no new deaths.  That’s ac­cord­ing to the up­date for Mon­day 14th Feb­ru­ary 2022, re­leased by the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

The UN health agency says the num­ber of new dai­ly COVID-19 cas­es more than dou­bled in six coun­tries in the re­gion in two weeks

Four more peo­ple—two men and two women—have lost their lives to COVID-19, while an­oth­er 376 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.  Dead are two el­der­ly males, one el­der­ly fe­male and one mid­dle-aged fe­male.

Five more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, while an­oth­er 510 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.  Dead are two el­der­ly males, one el­der­ly fe­male and two mid­dle-aged males.

The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) says the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WHO) has not yet giv­en Emer­gency Use List­ing (EUL) sta­tus to the chil­dren’s ver­sion of the Pfiz­er COVID-19 vac­cine, and as such, that lev­el of ap­proval is still pend­ing.

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