There has been an­oth­er COVID re­lat­ed death, bring­ing the num­ber to 13. In a press re­lease is­sued this morn­ing, the Min­istry of Health stat­ed the pa­tient is an adult male.

The med­ical health care sys­tem is burst­ing at its seams as the coun­try's COVID-19 cas­es con­tin­ue to rise on a dai­ly ba­sis.

Front-line med­ical work­ers who have been bat­tling the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic over the last six months have be­come just as vul­ner­a­ble as pa­tients to this virus as the coun­try con­tin­ues to record an alarm­ing in­crease in the num­ber of pos­i­tive cas­es.

This af­ter it was re­vealed he had had con­tact with some­one on elec­tion night who test­ed pos­i­tive for the virus.

There are 39 new COVID-19 pos­i­tive cas­es in T&T, as of to­day, Fri­day 21 Au­gust 2020, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Thurs­day 20th Au­gust, 2020:

Ac­cord­ing to a news re­lease from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness, and Fam­i­ly De­vel­op­ment, three ad­di­tion­al per­sons test­ed pos­i­tive for the virus bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of cas­es to 25.

Caribbean Air­lines has be­gun to op­er­ate a re­duced sched­ule on the do­mes­tic air bridge be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go in re­sponse to the new COVID-19 re­stric­tions is­sued by Gov­ern­ment, over the week­end.

The in­ter-is­land fer­ries are ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue their op­er­a­tions dai­ly, but at re­duced ca­pac­i­ty, fol­low­ing the lat­est COVID-19 Reg­u­la­tions and re­stric­tions is­sued by Gov­ern­ment, over the week­end.

T&TEC work­ers have been placed on a ro­ta­tion sys­tem, start­ing to­day (Wednes­day), af­ter one of their work­ers in the South Dis­tri­b­u­tion Cen­tre test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 last week.

De­spite tor­ren­tial rain­fall and a stern warn­ing from Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh not to con­gre­gate, thou­sands of peo­ple flocked to the beach­es and rivers across the coun­try yes­ter­day.

Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed has ad­vised that come We­dens­day (Au­gust 19), the do­mes­tic air bridge be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go will op­er­ate on a re­duced sched­ule.