The woman who re­port­ed­ly left the Scar­bor­ough Hos­pi­tal on Wednes­day af­ter test­ing pos­i­tive for COVID-19 claims she was not told about her sta­tus nor was she in­formed that she could not leave the hos­pi­tal.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yes­ter­day con­firmed to Guardian Me­dia that he was do­ing bet­ter in spite of the COVID-19 di­ag­no­sis.

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) is giv­ing the as­sur­ance its Mag­net­ic Res­o­nance Imag­ing (MRI) ma­chine will be fixed soon. It’s the on­ly ma­chine of its kind in To­ba­go.

Over three thou­sand peo­ple - 3,640 to be ex­act- have tak­en the Ox­ford As­traZeneca COVID vac­cine in the last three days af­ter this coun­try’s vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve be­gan on Tues­day.

Even with­out an ap­point­ment, mem­bers of the pub­lic would be ac­com­mo­dat­ed for the COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tions at the Princes Town Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty.

One day af­ter a five-mem­ber team from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) met with of­fi­cials from the Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) – the pub­lic has been ad­vised that Scott House in Port-of-Spain will be closed to­day for san­i­tiz­ing af­ter an em­ploy­ee test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

A man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­ny has lost its bid to re­cov­er com­pen­sa­tion for dam­age to its truck caused by low-hang­ing over­head lines.

A po­lice con­sta­ble has been com­mit­ted to stand tril for the mur­der of a civil­ian who was killed in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing on Oc­to­ber 20, 2016.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, the vic­tim told po­lice he was hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with his neigh­bours near his home about the sale of land in the area when he was ap­proached by a man from the com­mu­ni­ty who told him to leave.

The Min­istry of Health says it is thank­ful for the high turnout of cit­i­zens tak­ing the COVID vac­cine. They say to date 4777 per­sons have re­ceived the vac­cine with no ad­verse events re­port­ed. The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the Min­istry of Health:

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young says this coun­try stands ready to as­sist St Vin­cent and the Grenadines in light of the in­creas­ing ac­tiv­i­ty of the La Soufriere Vol­cano.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed 41 new COVID in the last 24 hours. This brings the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 432. There are cur­rent­ly 45 pa­tients at hos­pi­tal, four of which are in ICU and one in HDU. Four thou­sand sev­en hun­dred and sev­en­ty-sev­en per­sons have been vac­ci­nat­ed so far.