Even as nine new COVID-19 pos­i­tive cas­es are be­ing record­ed, the Min­istry of Health is re­port­ing that the num­bers of those in self iso­la­tion who are re­cov­er­ing from the dis­ease are in­creas­ing.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (PA­HO) is warn­ing gov­ern­ments in the Amer­i­c­as that those in their pop­u­la­tions not yet ex­posed to COVID-19 are still very much at risk of the dis­ease, and re­open­ing economies must be done care­ful­ly and strate­gi­cal­ly.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 28,105

Trinidad and To­ba­go has record­ed yet an­oth­er death from COVID-19, mov­ing the na­tion­al toll up to 57, with the lat­est vic­tim be­ing a man, with pre-ex­ist­ing health con­di­tions.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 27,883

Con­cert pro­mot­er and mu­sic writer Nigel Camp­bell has called for a new fo­cus to­wards own­er­ship of pod­cast­ing and stream­ing rights, and even a manda­to­ry reg­is­tra­tion of copy­rights. His sug­ges­tion comes as the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic has de­stroyed the live mu­sic in­dus­try.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed an­oth­er COVID-19 re­lat­ed death, an el­der­ly fe­male with co-mor­bidi­ties.

The woman who was seen in a video by a beach which was post­ed on so­cial me­dia last week­end has been in­ter­viewed by the Po­lice.

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh says there can­not and will not be any ad­just­ments to the COVID-19 reg­u­la­tions to treat with en­force­ment on pri­vate prop­er­ty.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 27,527

So far two car­ni­val or­ga­ni­za­tions have in­di­cat­ed that their events for Car­ni­val 2021 have been post­poned.

A scold­ing on na­tion­al tele­vi­sion ad­dress­ing the young woman who breached the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions over the week­end was what Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh de­liv­ered in his open­ing re­marks at a vir­tu­al press con­fer­ence on Mon­day.