A drug­gable pock­et in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike pro­tein that could be used to stop the virus from in­fect­ing hu­man cells has been dis­cov­ered by an in­ter­na­tion­al team of sci­en­tists led by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bris­tol. 

Twen­ty-nine more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19, re­ports the Min­istry of Health in its lat­est up­date. These 29 new pa­tients will be processed for ad­mis­sion at the dis­cre­tion of the Coun­ty Med­ical Of­fi­cer of Health (CMOH).

An el­der­ly fe­male pa­tient with pre-ex­ist­ing health con­di­tions is the lat­est per­son in this coun­try to die from COVID-19, bring­ing the na­tion­al to­tal to 65.

The Bar­keep­ers and Op­er­a­tors As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (BOATT) is re­fut­ing analy­sis that seems to sug­gest the re­cent spike in COVID-19 cas­es in this coun­try, came as a re­sult of the re­port­ed “last lap” event.

Two branch­es of Sco­tia­bank have been closed tem­porar­i­ly and en­hanced health and safe­ty pro­to­cols im­ple­ment­ed, fol­low­ing con­fir­ma­tion of a COVID-19 pos­i­tive case at each lo­ca­tion.

Three more COVID-19 pa­tients have suc­cumbed to the dis­ease, bring­ing the na­tion­al death toll to 64.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Sat­ur­day Sep­tem­ber 19, 2020:

The Pres­i­dent of the San Juan Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion (SJ­BA), Vivek Char­ran, is call­ing on the au­thor­i­ties to move quick­ly to end the cur­rent wa­ter short­age in the con­stituen­cy of San Juan / Barataria.

An­oth­er group of COVID-19 pos­i­tive tests re­sults has the na­tion­al to­tal for ac­tive cas­es inch­ing clos­er to the 2,000 mark, as the Min­istry of Health an­nounces 78 new cas­es in its lat­est up­date.

As this coun­try’s Re­mand pris­on­ers em­bark on a hunger strike to high­light their wors­en­ing con­di­tions dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, the Caribbean Cen­tre for Hu­man Rights (CCHR) is re­it­er­at­ing its call for gov­ern­ment to work hard­er to mit­i­gate the risk of COVID-19 in the prison sys­tem.

The Min­istry of Health is re­port­ing there have been two more deaths from COVID-19—two el­der­ly per­sons, which brings the na­tion­al to­tal to 60 deaths.

Per­sons who have been placed in home quar­an­tine, es­pe­cial­ly those who have test COVID-19 pos­i­tive, will be mon­i­tored by the Po­lice Ser­vice’s Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol (ERP) ve­hi­cles and oth­er pa­trols in all nine Polic­ing Di­vi­sions, to en­sure they abide by the stip­u­la­tions of their quar­an­tine.