● The next gen­er­a­tion of shots will of­fer a broad­er and more ro­bust im­mune re­sponse. Plus, why it is im­por­tant to mon­i­tor known HIV vari­ants ●

NEW YORK (AP) — An ear­ly look at the per­for­mance of COVID-19 boost­er shots dur­ing the re­cent omi­cron wave in the U.S. hint­ed at a de­cline in ef­fec­tive­ness, though the shots still of­fered strong pro­tec­tion against se­vere ill­ness.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 6 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,507. There are cur­rent­ly 309 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 963 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 21,267.

Bail was grant­ed to three per­sons who were caught dur­ing a sting op­er­a­tion crack­ing down on the con­spir­a­cy to il­le­gal­ly is­sue false COVID-19 im­mu­niza­tion cards at the Fyz­abad Health Fa­cil­i­ty, af­ter they ap­peared be­fore a Jus­tice of the Peace, on Thurs­day.

There are 26 new pos­i­tive COVID-19 cas­es in To­ba­go over the past 24 hours, but for­tu­nate­ly, no new deaths.

LON­DON (AP) — As­traZeneca record­ed a big jump in rev­enue on Thurs­day as it be­gins to take a prof­it from its coro­n­avirus vac­cine for the first time.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 6 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,501. There are cur­rent­ly 439 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 738 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 21,045.

(AP) — Two years in­to the pan­dem­ic Jack­ie Hansen still left home on­ly for doc­tor vis­its, her im­mune sys­tem so wrecked by can­cer and lu­pus that COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tions couldn’t take hold.

No new deaths from COVID-19 have been record­ed in To­ba­go over the past 24 hours, ac­cord­ing to the up­date for Wednes­day 9th Feb­ru­ary 2022, re­leased by the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

“The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go con­tin­ues to de­liv­er a range of so­cial sup­port mea­sures to cush­ion the reper­cus­sions of the pan­dem­ic…”

● It is im­por­tant to re­search this coro­n­avirus that can cross from bats to hu­mans, but we must not pan­ic ●

The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) is cau­tion­ing re­gion­al Min­istries of Health against us­ing adult for­mu­la­tions of the Pfiz­er-BioN­Tech COVID-19 vac­cine for the vac­ci­na­tion of chil­dren aged 5 to 11 years of age, even as it en­cour­ages them to con­tin­ue rolling out their na­tion­al vac­ci­na­tion cam­paigns.