The more in­fec­tious and dead­ly Delta vari­ant has been de­tect­ed among this coun­try’s pop­u­la­tion and the Min­istry of Health be­lieves there are more undis­cov­ered cas­es.

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.

This coun­try’s COVID-19 death toll now stands at 1,416 fol­low­ing con­fir­ma­tion from the Min­istry of Health that three more peo­ple have lost their lives to the dis­ease—two of whom were el­der­ly males and one el­der­ly fe­male—all with co­mor­bidi­ties.  

Six months af­ter re­cov­er­ing from COVID-19, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has a close en­counter with the virus again.

The Min­istry of Health has not yet re­ceived any re­ports from women on ad­verse re­ac­tions re­lat­ed to their men­stru­al cy­cle af­ter tak­ing the COVID-19 vac­cine.

Ten per­sons—five men and five women—who were seen lim­ing on the Ma­yaro/Man­zanil­la beach, have been charged with be­ing on a beach for recre­ation­al pur­pos­es con­trary to the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions, by of­fi­cers of the Ma­yaro Po­lice Sta­tion.

Nine more peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed over the past 24 hours for breach­ing the cur­few stip­u­lat­ed un­der the cur­rent Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est COVID Reg­u­la­tions en­force­ment up­date from the Po­lice Ser­vice.

This, as the Min­istry of Health has con­firmed that eight more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19. 

In­dus­tri­al Court Pres­i­dent Deb­o­rah Thomas-Fe­lix has stat­ed that manda­to­ry vac­ci­na­tions can­not be im­ple­ment­ed uni­lat­er­al­ly by em­ploy­ers.

Eleven more peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed over the past 24 hours for breach­ing the cur­few stip­u­lat­ed un­der the cur­rent Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est COVID Reg­u­la­tions en­force­ment up­date from the Po­lice Ser­vice.

Caris­sa F. Eti­enne, Di­rec­tor of the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) em­pha­sizes that the COVID-19 virus is neg­a­tive­ly af­fect­ing the health of young chil­dren and teenagers across na­tions, and ad­vo­cates for swift and ef­fec­tive ac­tions to be tak­en. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease.

Pop­u­lar Tri­ni-born rap­per Oni­ka Maraj known as "Nic­ki Mi­naj" cre­at­ed a furore on so­cial me­dia Mon­day night when she tweet­ed an un­sub­stan­ti­at­ed claim about im­po­tence and swollen tes­ti­cles in some­one in Trinidad fol­low­ing COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion.