Dur­ing a re­gion­al work­shop in Ar­genti­na, the Di­rec­tor of PA­HO called for coun­tries to in­crease in­vest­ment in epi­dem­ic and pan­dem­ic pre­pared­ness, be­cause the ques­tion is not “if there will be a new pan­dem­ic, but when...” 

There were three new deaths—two ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed peo­ple and one un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son—from COVID-19 in To­ba­go, dur­ing the pe­ri­od Sun­day 7 to Sat­ur­day 13 Au­gust 2022, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est week­ly up­date from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).  

Four more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry of Health, for Sun­day 14 Au­gust 2022. These lat­est deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll to 4,079 lives lost.

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter has con­firmed that Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is fi­nal­ly out of quar­an­tine and re­sumed work to­day.

Ris­ing COVID-19 hos­pi­tal­i­sa­tions have prompt­ed the Min­istry of Health to re­ac­ti­vate two step-down fa­cil­i­ties in the par­al­lel health­care sys­tem.

The Min­istry of Health is mon­i­tor­ing an out­break of Langya heni­pavirus (LayV) which has in­fect­ed 35 peo­ple. This was con­firmed by Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram on Wednes­day, at the min­istry’s vir­tu­al press brief­ing.

Two more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry of Health.  These lat­est deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll to 4,053 lives lost.

Three more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry of Health.  These lat­est deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll to 4,051 lives lost.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — Pres­i­dent Joe Biden test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 again Sat­ur­day, slight­ly more than three days af­ter he was cleared to ex­it coro­n­avirus iso­la­tion, the White House said, in a rare case of “re­bound” fol­low­ing treat­ment with an an­ti-vi­ral drug.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley re­mains in iso­la­tion, in keep­ing with the cur­rent COVID-19 pro­to­cols, and is be­ing mon­i­tored by his physi­cians, as he rides out a sec­ond in­fec­tion with COVID-19.

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter has con­firmed that Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has con­tract­ed COVID-19 again, but it ap­pears that be­ing vac­ci­nat­ed is work­ing in his favour.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — Pres­i­dent Joe Biden on Wednes­day emerged from five days of iso­la­tion af­ter con­tract­ing the coro­n­avirus, telling Amer­i­cans that “COVID isn’t gone” but say­ing se­ri­ous ill­ness can be avoid­ed with vac­cines, boost­er shoots and treat­ments.