The lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health is con­firm­ing 126 new pos­i­tive cas­es of COVID-19, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try to 725 pa­tients.

How­ev­er, this lat­est sta­tis­tic marks a sharp in­crease in the num­ber of ac­tive cas­es na­tion­al­ly, as the fig­ure for yes­ter­day (Sat­ur­day) stood at 615 pa­tients.

In its up­date for to­day, Sun­day 22 No­vem­ber 2020, the Min­istry clar­i­fied that of the 126 new pos­i­tive cas­es, 108 are from the prison sys­tem.

It al­so ex­plains the num­ber of pos­i­tive cas­es re­port­ed re­flects the sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od Nov 19th - Nov 21st, 2020 and not the last 24 hours.

The Min­istry’s lat­est up­date al­so shows no new deaths from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, with the na­tion­al toll hold­ing at 115 per­sons.

The Health Min­istry al­so notes in its up­date:

● 44 per­sons are still hos­pi­talised for COVID-19; down from 45 pa­tients on Sat­ur­day.

● 526 per­sons are in home self-iso­la­tion; up from 480 pa­tients on Sat­ur­day.

● 178 per­sons are in State quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties; up from 112 pa­tients on Sat­ur­day.

● 29 pa­tients are still re­cov­er­ing in step/down fa­cil­i­ties; up from 27 pa­tients on Sat­ur­day.

The fol­low­ing is the com­plete clin­i­cal up­date from the Min­istry...

Update courtesy Ministry of Health.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are re­mind­ed that they must ad­here to the ‘New Nor­mal’ rec­om­men­da­tions and take the fol­low­ing per­son­al health mea­sures to pro­tect them­selves and their loved ones from COVID-19:

●   Wear a mask over your nose and mouth when you go out in pub­lic

●   Keep your dis­tance from oth­ers (6 feet)

●   Stay home if you are ill

●   Clean then sani­tise sur­faces (e.g. table­tops, door knobs and cell phones)

●   Wash your hands of­ten with soap and wa­ters or use an al­co­hol-based hand sani­tis­er

●   Cough in­to a tis­sue or in­to the cook of your el­bow

●   Avoid touch­ing your face

If you or a loved one de­vel­ops symp­toms of COVID-19, please call the hot­line 877-WELL or 800-WELL (9355) for fur­ther guid­ance.

If the per­son is se­vere­ly ill, call the 811 (emer­gency hot­line) or call ahead to the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment of your near­est hos­pi­tal for help and go in im­me­di­ate­ly.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go will con­tin­ue to up­date the pub­lic via its of­fi­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels such as:

●  The Min­istry of Health’s web­site (health.gov.tt);

●  The Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions web­sites (moc.gov.tt and news.gov.tt); and

●  The rel­e­vant so­cial me­dia pages of these en­ti­ties (Face­book, Twit­ter and In­sta­gram).