Lo­cal busi­ness cham­bers have in­di­cat­ed their sup­port for Gov­ern­ment’s plan to in­tro­duce “safe zones”, which will al­low for the re­open­ing of many en­ter­tain­ment and recre­ation­al spaces across the coun­try.

For­eign Min­is­ters of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) have im­pressed up­on Unit­ed States Deputy Sec­re­tary of State Wendy Sher­man the ur­gency for the de­liv­ery of the sec­ond tranche of do­na­tions of Pfiz­er vac­cines from the US.

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter has con­firmed that Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley MP is now out of iso­la­tion and has test­ed neg­a­tive for COVID-19.

The Min­istry of Health has re­leased a new ad­vi­so­ry con­cern­ing the vac­ci­na­tion against COVID-19 of preg­nant and breast­feed­ing women in Trinidad and To­ba­go, in­clud­ing which vac­cines should be used when and by whom.

(AP)—Pres­i­dent Joe Biden an­nounced Wednes­day that the Unit­ed States is dou­bling its pur­chase of Pfiz­er’s COVID-19 shots to share with the world to 1 bil­lion dos­es as he em­braces the goal of vac­ci­nat­ing 70% of the glob­al pop­u­la­tion with­in the next year.

UNIT­ED NA­TIONS (AP) — Pres­i­dent Joe Biden used his first ad­dress be­fore the U.N. Gen­er­al As­sem­bly on Tues­day to de­clare that the world stands and at an “in­flec­tion point in his­to­ry” and must move quick­ly and co­op­er­a­tive­ly to ad­dress the fes­ter­ing is­sues of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, cli­mate change and hu­man rights abuse.

White House COVID-19 Re­sponse Co­or­di­na­tor Jeff Zients caused quite a stir on Mon­day when he an­nounced the lat­est US trav­el guide­lines. Come ear­ly No­vem­ber, all for­eign adult trav­ellers need to be ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed to en­ter the USA by air. The new pol­i­cy doesn’t ap­ply to land cross­ings.

NEW YORK (AP) — In per­son and on screen, world lead­ers re­turned to the Unit­ed Na­tions’ fore­most gath­er­ing for the first time in the pan­dem­ic era on Tues­day with a for­mi­da­ble, diplo­ma­cy-packed agen­da and a sharply word­ed warn­ing from the in­ter­na­tion­al or­ga­ni­za­tion’s leader: “We face the great­est cas­cade of crises in our life­time.”

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has con­firmed that come Oc­to­ber 4th, 2021, ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed stu­dents in Forms Four, Five and Six in sec­ondary schools through­out the coun­try will com­mence phys­i­cal school­ing once more, for both teach­ing and prac­ti­cal ses­sions. 

Trade union lead­ers have come out in sup­port of the state­ments made by the In­dus­tri­al Court Pres­i­dent on manda­to­ry vac­ci­na­tion of work­ers against COVID-19.

For three days a COVID-19 pos­i­tive pa­tient was kept on the sur­gi­cal ward of the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal pos­si­bly ex­pos­ing oth­er pa­tients and vis­i­tors to the dead­ly virus.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — Pres­i­dent Joe Biden will ease for­eign trav­el re­stric­tions to the U.S. be­gin­ning in No­vem­ber, al­low­ing for­eign­ers in­to the coun­try if they have proof of vac­ci­na­tion and a neg­a­tive COVID-19 test, the White House said Mon­day.