There has been one more death from COVID-19, with the pa­tient be­ing an el­der­ly male with pre-ex­ist­ing health con­di­tions. His death brings the na­tion­al to­tal to 28.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 23,934

In a press rlea­seis­sued this morn­ing the Min­istry of Health stat­ed that the per­sons are an el­der­ly male with co-mor­bidi­ties and two el­der­ly fe­males, al­so with co-mor­bidi­ties.

The Sco­tia­bank Princes Town branch has re­opened fol­low­ing a tem­po­rary clo­sure due to an em­ploy­ee test­ing pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

Thir­ty-two (32) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go to 1,061.

There has been one new death from COVID-19, an el­der­ly fe­male pa­tient with pre-ex­ist­ing health con­di­tions. Her death brings the to­tal num­ber of COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths to 22.

 Most of the pop­u­la­tion turned to their tele­vi­sions on Sat­ur­day with a sense of un­ease as they wait­ed for the Prime Min­is­ter to ad­dress the coun­try on new lock­down mea­sures to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

Eight more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est COVID-19 up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

A new re­port re­leased re­cent­ly by the In­ter­na­tion­al Labour Or­gan­i­sa­tion (ILO) is re­port­ing that as a re­sult of COVID-19, al­most half a mil­lion Caribbean tourism work­ers now face the prospect of de­cent work deficits in the form of job loss­es, re­duc­tions in work­ing hours, and loss of in­comes.

One day af­ter Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh an­nounced the State was pre­pared to of­fer quar­an­tine ac­com­mo­da­tions for those whose homes do not com­fort­ably al­low for this – two ad­di­tion­al COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths have been record­ed.

Two more el­der­ly males with pre-ex­ist­ing health con­di­tions have died from COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est COVID-19 up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

Gov­ern­ment must move swift­ly to ramp up COVID-19 test­ing in this coun­try, as well as make ef­forts to strength­en and tight­en na­tion­al bor­ders, to stem the spread of the coro­n­avirus.