(AP) – The quick­ly chang­ing coro­n­avirus has spawned yet an­oth­er su­per con­ta­gious omi­cron mu­tant that’s wor­ry­ing sci­en­tists as it gains ground in In­dia and pops up in nu­mer­ous oth­er coun­tries, in­clud­ing the Unit­ed States.

Nine more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), dat­ed Wednes­day 6 Ju­ly 2022.

Five more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), dat­ed Mon­day 4 Ju­ly 2022.

Two more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), dat­ed Sun­day 3 Ju­ly 2022.

This an­nounce­ment was made on Sat­ur­day by Prime Min­is­ter, Dr Kei­th Row­ley, while he was speak­ing at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port be­fore leav­ing on a flight to Suri­name.

An un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son is the lat­est in­di­vid­ual to lose their life to COVID-19 in To­ba­go.  Their death has brought the death toll for COVID-19 on the is­land to 272 lives lost.

The lat­est ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry of Health is re­port­ing that there were no new deaths from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, and as such, the na­tion­al death toll from the dis­ease re­mains at 4,013 lives lost.

Three more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go over the past 24 hours. The num­ber of cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions now stands at 106.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 2 ad­di­tion­al COVID-re­lat­ed deaths. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 4,011. There are cur­rent­ly 103 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 118 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 6,320. 

A ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed per­son is the lat­est in­di­vid­ual to lose their life to COVID-19 in To­ba­go.  Their death has brought the death toll for COVID-19 on the is­land to 271 lives lost.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 4 ad­di­tion­al COVID-re­lat­ed deaths. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 4,009. There are cur­rent­ly 121 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 79 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 6,310. 

Pfiz­er an­nounced Sat­ur­day that tweak­ing its COVID-19 vac­cine to bet­ter tar­get the omi­cron vari­ant is safe and works — just days be­fore reg­u­la­tors de­bate whether to of­fer Amer­i­cans up­dat­ed boost­er shots this fall.