The Min­istry of Health has con­firmed that 25,000 per­sons from the gen­er­al adult pop­u­la­tion will now be able to ac­cess Pfiz­er COVID-19 vac­cines.

Five more peo­ple have died from COVID-19, push­ing up the na­tion­al death toll to 1,330 lives lost, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

Restau­ran­teur Pe­ter George is not buoyed by the prospect of re­open­ing of in-house din­ing, es­pe­cial­ly as it is de­pen­dent on in­creased vac­ci­na­tion fig­ures.

Al­though vac­ci­na­tion rates have slowed in re­cent weeks, scores of peo­ple in south Trinidad showed up for the South-West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty’s (SWRHA) COVID-19 Vac­ci­na­tion Road Trip on Sat­ur­day.
The event at the Es­per­ance Re­gion­al Com­plex saw peo­ple gath­ered two hours ahead of the 8 am start time to get shots of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca-made vac­cines; Pfiz­er-BioN­Tech and Jansen (John­son & John­son) vac­cines.
By 10 am, SWRHA per­son­nel vac­ci­nat­ed over 200 peo­ple while more con­stant­ly came ahead of the 3 pm close off.
Ria Do­dal took the Pfiz­er-BioN­Tech vac­cines as she said her re­search of the var­i­ous vac­cines showed it was ide­al for COVID-19. Do­dal, who vis­it­ed the Com­plex with her best friend be­fore their birth­days on Tues­day, said she de­cid­ed to take a chance and put God in front.

Sev­en more peo­ple have died from COVID-19, push­ing up the na­tion­al death toll to 1,318 lives lost, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr the Hon. Kei­th Row­ley made ad­just­ments to the ex­ist­ing COVID-19 Pub­lic Health Or­di­nance Reg­u­la­tions at a me­dia con­fer­ence held at Blenheim House, the Prime Min­is­ter’s of­fi­cial res­i­dence in To­ba­go to­day (Fri­day 03rd Sep­tem­ber, 2021).

Nine more peo­ple have died from COVID-19, push­ing up the na­tion­al death toll to 1,311 lives lost, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

Some 383 preg­nant women have con­tract­ed COVID-19 since the pan­dem­ic be­gan; how­ev­er, 68 of these in­fec­tions came with­in the last week, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health's Di­rec­tor of Women's Health Dr Adesh Sir­jus­ingh, who de­scribed the oc­cur­rence as "very alarm­ing".

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.

Three COVID-19 vac­cines are be­ing made avail­able to the pub­lic at the Mass Vac­ci­na­tion Site or­gan­ised by the Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SATT) at Cen­tre Pointe Mall, Ram­saran Street, Ch­agua­nas.  

As T&T counts down to its 59th an­niver­sary of In­de­pen­dence, which will be cel­e­brat­ed on Tues­day with ac­tiv­i­ties cur­tailed by the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, the fo­cus is on the chal­lenges the coun­try has faced over the years. Has T&T at­tained any of the na­tion-build­ing ob­jec­tives set out in 1962? Are the present prob­lems in­sur­mount­able? The Sun­day Guardian spoke to promi­nent cit­i­zens who have made their con­tri­bu­tions in dif­fer­ent fields over the years. This is what they told us:

In­mates in the prison sys­tem had an op­por­tu­ni­ty to have their con­cerns about COVID-19 and the vac­ci­na­tion pro­gramme this week, when two Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters vis­it­ed the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison and made a guest ap­pear­ance on RISE Max­i­mum Ra­dio, a sta­tion which broad­casts ex­clu­sive­ly to the prison pop­u­la­tion.