An el­der­ly fe­male with pre-ex­ist­ing health con­di­tions has be­come the lat­est per­son to die from COVID-19, re­ports the Min­istry of Health.

Nine (9) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19, re­ports the Min­istry of Health in its lat­est clin­i­cal up­date.

Over­come by grief af­ter be­ing told their moth­er died from COVID-19 and oth­er com­pli­ca­tions at a hos­pi­tal one week ago, a fam­i­ly from east Trinidad (who did not want to be named) is now hop­ing that med­ical au­thor­i­ties can an­swer their ques­tions and bring a sense of clo­sure to them.

The pub­lic health mea­sures in place for COVID-19 are work­ing. Med­ical of­fi­cials re­port­ed that fol­low­ing a peak in COVID-19 cas­es around mid-Au­gust and plateau­ing fig­ures dur­ing Sep­tem­ber, trends have shown an ap­par­ent downtick in T&T’s curve.

The Min­istry of Health has said that a high flu vac­cine up­take by the pub­lic will help to re­duce the de­mand for pub­lic health re­sources to treat flu-re­lat­ed com­pli­ca­tions. These re­sources can be used to treat COVID-19 pa­tients.

The roll-back mea­sures an­nounced by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley ear­li­er this month are set to re­main in place un­til Oc­to­ber 11.

This is ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and Fam­i­ly De­vel­op­ment.

The pass­ing of an­oth­er COVID-19 pa­tient has moved the na­tion­al death toll for the dis­ease to 70, as of this af­ter­noon, Fri­day 25 Sep­tem­ber 2020.

An­oth­er two COVID-19 pa­tients have suc­cumbed to the dis­ease, bring­ing the na­tion­al death toll to 69 per­sons.

There are 29 new cas­es of COVID-19 in Trinidad and To­ba­go, even as more of those pre­vi­ous­ly in­fect­ed con­tin­ue to re­cov­er and sur­vive the dis­ease.

The Bar­keep­ers and Op­er­a­tors As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BOATT) says the cur­rent re­stric­tions on recre­ation­al fa­cil­i­ties do not make sense.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19  29,328