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.

The Na­tion­al Joint Ac­tion Com­mit­tee (NJAC) is call­ing for a com­plete over­haul of the health sys­tem in Trinidad and To­ba­go, along with the cur­rent strate­gies be­ing em­ployed in the fight against Covid 19.

■ Thou­sands of games-re­lat­ed staff, vol­un­teers, clean­ers, cooks and coach dri­vers to be co­cooned for weeks in so-called ‘closed loop’ ■

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.

(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.

■ Ear­ly lab­o­ra­to­ry stud­ies show the more trans­mis­si­ble vari­ant repli­cates less ef­fi­cient­ly once in­side the lung tis­sue ■

■ Sev­er­al coun­tries see record high COVID-19 cas­es as the more in­fec­tious Omi­cron vari­ant spreads ■

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.

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.

The Min­istry of Health is prepar­ing for a spike in COVID-19 cas­es with­in com­ing days as the coun­try re­cent­ly con­clud­ed the hol­i­day sea­son.

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.

Class­es will re­main vir­tu­al when tu­ition re­sumes at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (The UWI) on Jan­u­ary 17th.