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Anglican Archbishop Rev Bishop Claude Berkley
NICOLE DRAYTON
COVID-19 measures return to Anglican churches
WHO declares new variant of interest
Health Ministry: Pfizer vaccines available for booster doses
CARPHA promotes immunisation with “Take Your Best Shot” Schools’ trivia game show
Former Minister of Education and former Member of Parliament for Caroni East, Dr Tim Gopeesingh
Dr Gopeesingh calls for the lifting of all COVID-19 emergency declarations
Covid-19 Cases in Trinidad and Tobago
Omicron appears to be affecting the upper respiratory tract, causing milder symptoms. [File: Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images]
WHO sees more evidence that Omicron is milder
Zhangjiakou Winter Olympic Village athletes' village for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in China. The global media and roughly 3,000 athletes are expected to start arriving in the Chinese capital in the weeks ahead [Thomas Suen/Reuters]
A month from Winter Olympics, Beijing seals off games ‘bubble’
Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 lately? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 lately?
San Fernando City Corporation daily paid workers protest the lack of protective equipment and gear, on Tuesday 4 January 2022. (Image: RISHI RAGOONATH)
San Fernando city workers stage protest
The Omicron variant is much slower at infiltrating the lung tissue. [Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera]
Omicron is less severe because it does not infiltrate the lungs
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, wears a face mask during the White House COVID-19 Response Team's regular call with the National Governors Association in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, in Washington. Fauci says the U.S. should consider a vaccination mandate for domestic air travel as coronavirus infections surge. To date the Biden administration has balked at the idea, anticipating legal entanglements. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Fauci: CDC mulling COVID test requirement for asymptomatic
22 new COVID deaths inches national toll closer to 3,000
Professor Brian Copeland, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal at The UWI St. Augustine Campus. (Image courtesy The UWI)
UWI remains in virtual mode, resumes remote operations
Dr. Maryam Abdool-Richards
MoH prepares for post-holiday COVID spike
The UWI Administration Building, St Augustine.
Virtual classes to continue at The UWI St Augustine, when new term begins
FILE - A staff member from the National Health Organisation (EODY) prepares a booster Johnson and Johnson vaccine against COVID-19 at Karatepe refugee camp, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. The fast-moving omicron variant is complicating a key question: How does the COVID-19 pandemic end and the world co-exist with this virus? Experts agree that the coronavirus is here to stay. Ending the pandemic won't be like flipping a light switch. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas, File)
How will pandemic end? Omicron clouds forecasts for endgame
Shoppers wearing face masks to protect against COVID-19 walk along the Christmas market at Tuilerie garden in Paris on December 20, 2021 [File: Michel Euler/AP Photo]
Omicron main COVID variant in France
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Nirvan Maharaj, President General of the All Trinidad General Workers Trade Union.
No mandatory vaccination at this time, says ATGWU president
Another trade unionist is calling on Government to rethink its position on mandatory vaccinations against COVID-19 for its employees, and is recommending that personal choice be respected.
FLASHBACK - Asgarili Mohammed and Zorida Mohammed show their GENUINE Immunization Cards after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine at the Penal Rock Road Health Centre, in June 2021.
Crackdown on fake vaccination cards in Public Sector
The Health Ministry met with the Police Service on Wednesday morning to plan a further enhanced crackdown on false vaccination cards, as the government moves to make the Public Service a quasi safe zone on January 17th.
Omicron appears to be affecting the upper respiratory tract, causing milder symptoms. [File: Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images]
WHO sees more evidence that Omicron is milder
■ Several countries see record high COVID-19 cases as the more infectious Omicron variant spreads ■
Zhangjiakou Winter Olympic Village athletes' village for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in China. The global media and roughly 3,000 athletes are expected to start arriving in the Chinese capital in the weeks ahead [Thomas Suen/Reuters]
A month from Winter Olympics, Beijing seals off games ‘bubble’
■ Thousands of games-related staff, volunteers, cleaners, cooks and coach drivers to be cocooned for weeks in so-called ‘closed loop’ ■
Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 lately? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 lately?
(AP) — Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 lately? A couple of factors are at play, starting with the emergence of the highly contagious omicron variant. Omicron is more likely to infect people, even if it doesn’t make them very sick, and its surge coincided with the holiday travel season in many places.
San Fernando City Corporation daily paid workers protest the lack of protective equipment and gear, on Tuesday 4 January 2022. (Image: RISHI RAGOONATH)
San Fernando city workers stage protest
Daily paid workers of the San Fernando City Corporation (SFCC) have downed tools as they protest the lack of protective equipment and gear against COVID-19.
The Omicron variant is much slower at infiltrating the lung tissue. [Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera]
Omicron is less severe because it does not infiltrate the lungs
■ Early laboratory studies show the more transmissible variant replicates less efficiently once inside the lung tissue ■
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, wears a face mask during the White House COVID-19 Response Team's regular call with the National Governors Association in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, in Washington. Fauci says the U.S. should consider a vaccination mandate for domestic air travel as coronavirus infections surge. To date the Biden administration has balked at the idea, anticipating legal entanglements. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Fauci: CDC mulling COVID test requirement for asymptomatic
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the COVID-19 omicron variant surges across the United States, top federal health officials are looking to add a negative test along with its five-day isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who catch the coronavirus, the White House’s top medical adviser said Sunday.
22 new COVID deaths inches national toll closer to 3,000
Twenty-two more people have lost their lives to COVID-19, bringing the national death toll perilously close to 3,000. The latest update from the Ministry of Health reports that the national toll now stands at 2,936 lives lost.
Professor Brian Copeland, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal at The UWI St. Augustine Campus. (Image courtesy The UWI)
UWI remains in virtual mode, resumes remote operations
The University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine Campus resumed operations today, 3rd January 2022, albeit in virtual mode, following its usual end-of-year closure period from December 24th to January 2nd.
Dr. Maryam Abdool-Richards
MoH prepares for post-holiday COVID spike
The Ministry of Health is preparing for a spike in COVID-19 cases within coming days as the country recently concluded the holiday season.
The UWI Administration Building, St Augustine.
Virtual classes to continue at The UWI St Augustine, when new term begins
Classes will remain virtual when tuition resumes at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) on January 17th.
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FLASHBACK - Asgarili Mohammed and Zorida Mohammed show their GENUINE Immunization Cards after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine at the Penal Rock Road Health Centre, in June 2021.
Crackdown on fake vaccination cards in Public Sector
Omicron appears to be affecting the upper respiratory tract, causing milder symptoms. [File: Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images]
WHO sees more evidence that Omicron is milder
Zhangjiakou Winter Olympic Village athletes' village for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in China. The global media and roughly 3,000 athletes are expected to start arriving in the Chinese capital in the weeks ahead [Thomas Suen/Reuters]
A month from Winter Olympics, Beijing seals off games ‘bubble’
Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 lately? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 lately?
San Fernando City Corporation daily paid workers protest the lack of protective equipment and gear, on Tuesday 4 January 2022. (Image: RISHI RAGOONATH)
San Fernando city workers stage protest
The Omicron variant is much slower at infiltrating the lung tissue. [Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera]
Omicron is less severe because it does not infiltrate the lungs
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, wears a face mask during the White House COVID-19 Response Team's regular call with the National Governors Association in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, in Washington. Fauci says the U.S. should consider a vaccination mandate for domestic air travel as coronavirus infections surge. To date the Biden administration has balked at the idea, anticipating legal entanglements. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Fauci: CDC mulling COVID test requirement for asymptomatic
22 new COVID deaths inches national toll closer to 3,000
Professor Brian Copeland, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal at The UWI St. Augustine Campus. (Image courtesy The UWI)
UWI remains in virtual mode, resumes remote operations
Dr. Maryam Abdool-Richards
MoH prepares for post-holiday COVID spike
The UWI Administration Building, St Augustine.
Virtual classes to continue at The UWI St Augustine, when new term begins
FILE - A staff member from the National Health Organisation (EODY) prepares a booster Johnson and Johnson vaccine against COVID-19 at Karatepe refugee camp, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. The fast-moving omicron variant is complicating a key question: How does the COVID-19 pandemic end and the world co-exist with this virus? Experts agree that the coronavirus is here to stay. Ending the pandemic won't be like flipping a light switch. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas, File)