Four­teen more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, with these lat­est deaths push­ing up the na­tion­al death toll to 3,372 lives lost, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

An un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son, as well as a ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed per­son are the lat­est COVID-19 vic­tims in To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to the up­date for Thurs­day 27 Jan­u­ary 2022, re­leased by the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

WELLING­TON, New Zealand (AP) — When the coro­n­avirus be­gan spread­ing around the world, the re­mote Pa­cif­ic arch­i­pel­ago of Kiri­bati closed its bor­ders, en­sur­ing the dis­ease didn’t reach its shores for near­ly two full years.

NEW YORK (AP) — How many times can I reuse my N95 mask?  It de­pends, but you should be able to use N95s and KN95s a few times.

■ In its an­nu­al re­port So­cial Panora­ma of Latin Amer­i­ca, ECLAC es­ti­mates that the num­ber of peo­ple liv­ing in ex­treme pover­ty rose by around 5 mil­lion be­tween 2020 and 2021. The Unit­ed Na­tions or­ga­ni­za­tion calls for mov­ing to­wards uni­ver­sal, com­pre­hen­sive, sus­tain­able and re­silient so­cial pro­tec­tion sys­tems ■

● With treat­ment op­tions for long COVID still lim­it­ed, and new symp­toms com­ing to light all the time, we look at whether be­ing vac­ci­nat­ed of­fers pro­tec­tion against it ●

Come Jan­u­ary 31 beach­es will be al­lowed to open from 5 am to 6 pm. This is ac­cord­ing to the Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh dur­ing Wednes­day's press con­fer­ence.

BEI­JING (AP) — Re­peat­ed COVID-19 test­ing of mil­lions of Bei­jing res­i­dents is start­ing to test the pa­tience of some as the city clamps down on the virus ahead of the com­ing Win­ter Olympics.

(AP) — Pfiz­er is en­rolling healthy adults to test a re­for­mu­lat­ed COVID-19 vac­cine that match­es the huge­ly con­ta­gious omi­cron vari­ant, to see how it com­pares with the orig­i­nal shots.

(AP) — Sci­en­tists and health of­fi­cials around the world are keep­ing their eyes on a de­scen­dant of the omi­cron vari­ant that has been found in at least 40 coun­tries, in­clud­ing the Unit­ed States.

To­ba­go’s COVID-19 test­ing ca­pac­i­ty will soon be ex­pand­ed, thanks to the gen­er­ous do­na­tion of 15,000 anti­gen test kits from the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (PA­HO) / World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WHO). The test kits ar­rived in To­ba­go on Fri­day 21st Jan­u­ary 2022.

LON­DON (AP) — Lon­don po­lice said Tues­day they were in­ves­ti­gat­ing Down­ing Street lock­down par­ties in 2020 to de­ter­mine if U.K. gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials vi­o­lat­ed coro­n­avirus re­stric­tions, putting fur­ther pres­sure on Prime Min­is­ter Boris John­son.