Two more per­sons have died from COVID-19, brin­ing the to­tal to 17, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est of­fi­cial up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 22,576

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19. 22,375

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 27 new cas­es of COVID bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 1204.

The Caribbean Coun­cil for the Blind (CCB) is urg­ing re­gion­al gov­ern­ments to re­mem­ber those in their pop­u­la­tions with spe­cials needs, even as they craft poli­cies and reg­u­la­tions to com­bat the cur­rent COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Start­ing from to­day, if you have the COVID-19 virus but do not have mod­er­ate to se­vere symp­toms, you will be al­lowed to quar­an­tine at home.

The Four Roads fire sta­tion has been tem­porar­i­ly closed for sani­ti­sa­tion af­ter an of­fi­cer test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

The Sco­tia­bank Princes Town branch has been closed un­til fur­ther no­tice af­ter an em­ploy­ee test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

“It’s fake news,” say the au­thor­i­ties, con­cern­ing a so­cial me­dia post claim­ing that the coun­try will soon be un­der com­plete lock­down for a 14-day pe­ri­od, and that Gov­ern­ment “will al­low every­one to quar­an­tine in their homes in or­der to slow the com­mu­ni­ty spread” of COVID-19.

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (PA­HO) says re­in­forc­ing con­tact trac­ing and da­ta man­age­ment are key, as many coun­tries in the Amer­i­c­as re­open their economies and ac­tiv­i­ties.

The Min­istry of Health is re­port­ing that an ad­di­tion­al 132 COVID-19 pos­i­tive cas­es have been record­ed, be­tween the pe­ri­od 18th to 25th Au­gust, 2020.

153 new cas­es of COVID was record­ed by the Min­istry of Health to­day mak­ing it the high­est num­ber ever record­ed in a sin­gle day.