A ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed per­son is the lat­est COVID-19 vic­tim in To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to the up­date for Sun­day 23 Jan­u­ary 2022, re­leased by the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

(AL JAZEERA) — Most peo­ple will be fa­mil­iar with Vi­a­gra, oth­er­wise known as silde­nafil, for its use in treat­ing erec­tile dys­func­tion. But a nurse in the UK re­cent­ly claimed that the drug had saved her life when she was be­ing treat­ed for COVID-19.

■ British health au­thor­i­ties have iden­ti­fied hun­dreds of cas­es of the Omi­cron vari­ant dubbed BA.2 ■

Glob­al voice for teach­ers and ed­u­ca­tors gives world a COVID re­al­i­ty check on In­ter­na­tion­al Day of Ed­u­ca­tion...

Peo­ple who aren’t vac­ci­nat­ed against COVID-19 are no longer al­lowed in France’s restau­rants, bars, tourist sites and sports venues un­less they re­cent­ly re­cov­ered from the virus.

The Min­istry of Health has con­firmed the re­vised COVID-19 reg­u­la­tions gov­ern­ing the light­ing of fires for re­li­gious pur­pos­es at bod­ies of wa­ter—beach­es, rivers, streams, ponds, and springs, etc.—and is urg­ing the pub­lic to com­ply with the reg­u­la­tions.

Chair­man of the To­ba­go Busi­ness Cham­ber, Mar­tin George, is urg­ing Gov­ern­ment to re­fo­cus its en­er­gies from at­tempt­ing to host Car­ni­val events this year in Safe Zones, and to put the em­pha­sis in­stead on the ed­u­ca­tion sec­tor, the econ­o­my and bat­tling COVID-19.

BEI­JING (AP) — Chi­na is lim­it­ing the torch re­lay for the Win­ter Olympics to on­ly three days amid coro­n­avirus wor­ries, or­ga­niz­ers said Fri­day.  The flame will be dis­played on­ly in en­closed venues that are deemed “safe and con­trol­lable,” ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cials.

In­sur­ance com­pa­nies of­fer­ing health and med­ical cov­er­age, who are mem­bers of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go In­sur­ance Com­pa­nies (AT­TIC), have agreed to ho­n­our claims for the treat­ment of COVID-19 at pri­vate health fa­cil­i­ties.

(AP) — Some Eu­ro­pean coun­tries such as Spain are mak­ing ten­ta­tive plans for when they might start treat­ing COVID-19 as an “en­dem­ic” dis­ease, but the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion and oth­er of­fi­cials have warned that the world is nowhere close to de­clar­ing the pan­dem­ic over.

MADRID (AP) — When the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic was first de­clared, Spaniards were or­dered to stay home for more than three months. For weeks, they were not al­lowed out­side even for ex­er­cise. Chil­dren were banned from play­grounds, and the econ­o­my vir­tu­al­ly stopped.

For five years be­fore COVID-19, T&T record­ed three or four ma­ter­nal deaths an­nu­al­ly. Now, the coro­n­avirus is caus­ing that fig­ure to spike.