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Monday, April 7, 2025

COVID-19

Covid-19 Cases in Trinidad and Tobago

Updated: 4/7/2025, 3:31:46 PMTotal Cases: 191496Active Cases: 28Critical Cases: 0Total Deaths: 4390Recovered: 187078Total Tested: 913289
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FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the State Dining Room of the White House on April 4, 2023, in Washington. The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday, April 10, as Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the State Dining Room of the White House on April 4, 2023, in Washington. The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday, April 10, as Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts

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Tue Apr 11 2023

Regional survey reveals extensive disruptions to NCD care during COVID pandemic

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Tue Mar 28 2023
FILE - Doses of the anti-viral drug Paxlovid are displayed in New York, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. The COVID-19 medication won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisors on Thursday, March 16, 2023, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval after being used by millions of Americans under emergency use. (AP Photo/Stephanie Nano, File)

FILE - Doses of the anti-viral drug Paxlovid are displayed in New York, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. The COVID-19 medication won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisors on Thursday, March 16, 2023, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval after being used by millions of Americans under emergency use. (AP Photo/Stephanie Nano, File)

COVID-19 pill Paxlovid moves closer to full FDA approval

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Fri Mar 17 2023
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa. Image courtesy PAHO.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa. Image courtesy PAHO.

PAHO: Surveillance, vaccination key to ending COVID-19 pandemic in the Americas

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Fri Mar 10 2023
Dr Tim Gopeesingh.

Dr Tim Gopeesingh.

Abraham-Diaz

UNC calls again for CoE into Govt handling of COVID-19 pandemic

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CHESTER SAMBRANO
Fri Mar 10 2023

COVID-19 Update: 8 deaths, 622 cases in the last week

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RYAN BACHOO
Tue Mar 07 2023
UNC MP Dr Rishad Seecharan speaks during yesterday’s press conference.

UNC MP Dr Rishad Seecharan speaks during yesterday’s press conference.

UNC FACEBOOK

MP raises concerns about COVID-19 increases

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Mon Mar 06 2023
People, some wearing face masks visit the Temple of Heaven Park in Beijing, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Visitors flock to the tourist sites in cities in China after authorities lifted all bans on public gatherings from the outbreak of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

People, some wearing face masks visit the Temple of Heaven Park in Beijing, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Visitors flock to the tourist sites in cities in China after authorities lifted all bans on public gatherings from the outbreak of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China says it’s been ‘open and transparent’ on COVID origins

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Tue Feb 28 2023
File" Emergency medical technicians in full PPE suits attend to suspected covid positive patient outside the Chaguanas Health Facility, Galt Street, Montrose in March 2022.

File" Emergency medical technicians in full PPE suits attend to suspected covid positive patient outside the Chaguanas Health Facility, Galt Street, Montrose in March 2022.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

COVID numbers trending up

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Kalain Hosein
Tue Feb 28 2023
FILE: Travelers wearing face masks with their luggage head to the immigration counter at the departure hall at Lok Ma Chau station following the reopening of crossing border with mainland China, in Hong Kong, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Bertha Wang)

FILE: Travelers wearing face masks with their luggage head to the immigration counter at the departure hall at Lok Ma Chau station following the reopening of crossing border with mainland China, in Hong Kong, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Bertha Wang)

Japan to ease COVID border measures for travelers from China

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Mon Feb 27 2023

Free COVID-19 testing on Brian Lara Promenade

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Kejan Haynes
Wed Feb 22 2023

Slight drop in reported COVID-19 cases and deaths

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Wed Feb 22 2023
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CARPHA promotes immunisation with “Take Your Best Shot” Schools’ trivia game show

The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) has launched an in­no­v­a­tive re­gion­al on­line schools’ game show aimed at im­prov­ing the pub­lic’s un­der­stand­ing, es­pe­cial­ly young peo­ple and their par­ents, about COVID-19 and vac­ci­na­tion process­es.

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Chester Sambrano
Wed May 24 2023
Former Minister of Education and former Member of Parliament for Caroni East, Dr Tim Gopeesingh

Former Minister of Education and former Member of Parliament for Caroni East, Dr Tim Gopeesingh

Dr Gopeesingh calls for the lifting of all COVID-19 emergency declarations

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress' for­mer MP and Min­is­ter Dr Tim Gopeesingh is call­ing on the gov­ern­ment to lift all COVID-19 emer­gency de­c­la­ra­tions.

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Rhondor Dowlat
Sat May 06 2023
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the State Dining Room of the White House on April 4, 2023, in Washington. The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday, April 10, as Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the State Dining Room of the White House on April 4, 2023, in Washington. The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday, April 10, as Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts

The U.S. na­tion­al emer­gency to re­spond to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic end­ed Mon­day as Pres­i­dent Joe Biden signed a bi­par­ti­san con­gres­sion­al res­o­lu­tion to bring it to a close af­ter three years — weeks be­fore it was set to ex­pire along­side a sep­a­rate pub­lic health emer­gency.

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Tue Apr 11 2023

Regional survey reveals extensive disruptions to NCD care during COVID pandemic

A new study by the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) has found that ex­ten­sive dis­rup­tions in the di­ag­no­sis and man­age­ment of non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases (NCDs) in the Amer­i­c­as, in­clud­ing the Caribbean, oc­curred dur­ing the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic.

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Tue Mar 28 2023
FILE - Doses of the anti-viral drug Paxlovid are displayed in New York, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. The COVID-19 medication won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisors on Thursday, March 16, 2023, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval after being used by millions of Americans under emergency use. (AP Photo/Stephanie Nano, File)

FILE - Doses of the anti-viral drug Paxlovid are displayed in New York, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. The COVID-19 medication won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisors on Thursday, March 16, 2023, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval after being used by millions of Americans under emergency use. (AP Photo/Stephanie Nano, File)

COVID-19 pill Paxlovid moves closer to full FDA approval

Pfiz­er’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid won an­oth­er vote of con­fi­dence from U.S. health ad­vis­ers Thurs­day, clear­ing the way for its full reg­u­la­to­ry ap­proval by the Food and Drug Ad­min­is­tra­tion.

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Fri Mar 17 2023
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa. Image courtesy PAHO.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa. Image courtesy PAHO.

PAHO: Surveillance, vaccination key to ending COVID-19 pandemic in the Americas

As the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic en­ters its third year in the Re­gion of the Amer­i­c­as, Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) Di­rec­tor, Dr. Jar­bas Bar­bosa, has called on coun­tries to strength­en sur­veil­lance and bridge gaps in vac­ci­na­tion cov­er­age to end the emer­gency and bet­ter pre­pare for fu­ture health crises.

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Fri Mar 10 2023
Dr Tim Gopeesingh.

Dr Tim Gopeesingh.

Abraham-Diaz

UNC calls again for CoE into Govt handling of COVID-19 pandemic

On the an­niver­sary of the de­c­la­ra­tion of COVID-19 as a world­wide pan­dem­ic, there are re­newed calls for a Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to the Gov­ern­ment's han­dling of the sit­u­a­tion.

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CHESTER SAMBRANO
Fri Mar 10 2023

COVID-19 Update: 8 deaths, 622 cases in the last week

Eight more peo­ple—four el­der­ly males, three el­der­ly fe­males, and one mid­dle-aged fe­male—have lost their lives to COVID-19, be­tween March 1 and 7, 2023, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry of Health.  These lat­est deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll for COVID-19 to 4,355 lives lost.

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RYAN BACHOO
Tue Mar 07 2023
UNC MP Dr Rishad Seecharan speaks during yesterday’s press conference.

UNC MP Dr Rishad Seecharan speaks during yesterday’s press conference.

UNC FACEBOOK

MP raises concerns about COVID-19 increases

Ca­roni East MP Rishad Seecha­ran wants to know why the Health Min­istry is seek­ing to re­cruit an in­de­pen­dent con­sul­tant to as­sess its re­spons­es to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic when a com­mit­tee al­ready sub­mit­ted a de­tailed re­port on the stan­dard of care of COVID-19 pa­tients last year.

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Mon Mar 06 2023
People, some wearing face masks visit the Temple of Heaven Park in Beijing, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Visitors flock to the tourist sites in cities in China after authorities lifted all bans on public gatherings from the outbreak of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

People, some wearing face masks visit the Temple of Heaven Park in Beijing, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Visitors flock to the tourist sites in cities in China after authorities lifted all bans on public gatherings from the outbreak of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China says it’s been ‘open and transparent’ on COVID origins

Chi­na on Tues­day said it has been “open and trans­par­ent” in the search for the ori­gins of COVID-19, af­ter ques­tions about how the pan­dem­ic be­gan re­ceived new at­ten­tion.

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Tue Feb 28 2023
File" Emergency medical technicians in full PPE suits attend to suspected covid positive patient outside the Chaguanas Health Facility, Galt Street, Montrose in March 2022.

File" Emergency medical technicians in full PPE suits attend to suspected covid positive patient outside the Chaguanas Health Facility, Galt Street, Montrose in March 2022.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

COVID numbers trending up

In the high­est week­ly jump in COVID-19 cas­es since Oc­to­ber 4, 2022, the Min­istry of Health re­port­ed 559 new COVID-19 cas­es on Tues­day. These new cas­es were record­ed be­tween Feb­ru­ary 22 and 28. The sev­en-day rolling av­er­age of COVID-19 cas­es, mean­ing the num­ber of new COVID-19 cas­es record­ed dai­ly dur­ing the sev­en days, al­so rose to 80 cas­es a day, on av­er­age, mark­ing a high since Oc­to­ber 2022 and the high­est for 2023 to date.

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Kalain Hosein
Tue Feb 28 2023
FILE: Travelers wearing face masks with their luggage head to the immigration counter at the departure hall at Lok Ma Chau station following the reopening of crossing border with mainland China, in Hong Kong, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Bertha Wang)

FILE: Travelers wearing face masks with their luggage head to the immigration counter at the departure hall at Lok Ma Chau station following the reopening of crossing border with mainland China, in Hong Kong, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Bertha Wang)

Japan to ease COVID border measures for travelers from China

Japan is eas­ing its coro­n­avirus bor­der mea­sures for tourists from Chi­na be­gin­ning Wednes­day by test­ing on­ly ran­dom pas­sen­gers, a top gov­ern­ment spokesman said Mon­day.

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Mon Feb 27 2023
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Former Minister of Education and former Member of Parliament for Caroni East, Dr Tim Gopeesingh

Former Minister of Education and former Member of Parliament for Caroni East, Dr Tim Gopeesingh

Dr Gopeesingh calls for the lifting of all COVID-19 emergency declarations

by

Rhondor Dowlat
Sat May 06 2023
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the State Dining Room of the White House on April 4, 2023, in Washington. The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday, April 10, as Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the State Dining Room of the White House on April 4, 2023, in Washington. The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday, April 10, as Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts

by

Tue Apr 11 2023

Regional survey reveals extensive disruptions to NCD care during COVID pandemic

by

Tue Mar 28 2023
FILE - Doses of the anti-viral drug Paxlovid are displayed in New York, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. The COVID-19 medication won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisors on Thursday, March 16, 2023, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval after being used by millions of Americans under emergency use. (AP Photo/Stephanie Nano, File)

FILE - Doses of the anti-viral drug Paxlovid are displayed in New York, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. The COVID-19 medication won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisors on Thursday, March 16, 2023, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval after being used by millions of Americans under emergency use. (AP Photo/Stephanie Nano, File)

COVID-19 pill Paxlovid moves closer to full FDA approval

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Fri Mar 17 2023
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa. Image courtesy PAHO.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa. Image courtesy PAHO.

PAHO: Surveillance, vaccination key to ending COVID-19 pandemic in the Americas

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Fri Mar 10 2023
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