To­ba­go has record­ed 82 COVID-19 cas­es emerg­ing among stu­dents and staff on the is­land since the re­turn to phys­i­cal class­es on April 19. The up­date came dur­ing a joint press con­fer­ence in­volv­ing the Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search and Tech­nol­o­gy (DERT) and the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion (DHWSP).

(AP) — Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a boost­er dose of Pfiz­er’s COVID-19 vac­cine, ad­vis­ers to the U.S. gov­ern­ment said Thurs­day.

Some 57 per­sons have been cer­ti­fied as re­cov­ered from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, while an­oth­er 61 per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, in To­ba­go.

Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh took his sec­ond boost­er shot on Fri­day, as the coun­try rolled out the pro­gramme for a se­lect group of peo­ple.

Over the past 24 hours, some 33 new pos­i­tive cas­es of COVID-19 have been re­port­ed.  There are now 514 cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions on the is­land.

The Min­istry of Health’s na­tion­al im­mu­niza­tion pro­gramme got a boost re­cent­ly, with the do­na­tion of 27,600 Med­ical AD Sy­ringes Nee­dles via the Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (PA­HO).

Over the past 24 hours, some 45 new pos­i­tive cas­es of COVID-19 have been re­port­ed.  There are now 527 cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions on the is­land.

Four new COVID 19 in­fec­tions have been record­ed in To­ba­go, with­in the last 24 hours, bring­ing its to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to five hun­dred and six­ty-one. 

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 1 ad­di­tion­al COVID re­lat­ed death. This brings the to­tal num­ber of deaths to 3,871. There are cur­rent­ly 209 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 504 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 9,418. 

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — White House COVID-19 co­or­di­na­tor Dr. Ashish Jha has is­sued a dire warn­ing that the U.S. will be in­creas­ing­ly vul­ner­a­ble to the coro­n­avirus this fall and win­ter if Con­gress doesn’t swift­ly ap­prove new fund­ing for more vac­cines and treat­ments. 

An un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son is the most re­cent vic­tim of COVID-19 in To­ba­go, and theirs is the first record­ed death from the dis­ease in 11 days.  The is­land’s death toll from COVID-19 now stands at 267.

GENE­VA (AP) — The num­ber of new coro­n­avirus cas­es re­port­ed world­wide has con­tin­ued to fall ex­cept in the Amer­i­c­as and Africa, the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion said in its lat­est as­sess­ment of the pan­dem­ic.