Five more peo­ple—three el­der­ly males, and two el­der­ly fe­males—have lost their lives to COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry of Health, for Thurs­day 18 Au­gust 2022. These lat­est deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll to 4,089 lives lost.

The Min­istry says three of the five per­sons had mul­ti­ple co­mor­bidi­ties, while the oth­er two each had one co­mor­bid­i­ty.  Among the co­mor­bidi­ties re­port­ed are di­a­betes, hy­per­ten­sion, heart dis­ease, car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease, cere­brovas­cu­lar dis­ease, kid­ney dis­ease, neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­or­der and asth­ma.

In its up­date for Thurs­day, Au­gust 18, the Min­istry of Health al­so re­ports that 251 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.  At present, the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try is 7,051.

The num­ber of peo­ple in Trinidad and To­ba­go who have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19—from Thurs­day 12 March 2020 to Sun­day 14 Au­gust 2022—is 176,107.

As of to­day, Thurs­day, 216 COVID-19 pa­tients are hos­pi­talised (in hos­pi­tal and step-down fa­cil­i­ties), while some 6,821 peo­ple are in home self-iso­la­tion.

Cur­rent­ly, some 716,051 peo­ple—51.1 per cent of the pop­u­la­tion—are ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed, hav­ing com­plet­ed ei­ther a one-dose or two-dos­es reg­i­men of a COVID-19 vac­cine.  The Min­istry re­minds the pub­lic that a per­son is con­sid­ered to be ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed two weeks af­ter re­ceiv­ing the fi­nal rec­om­mend­ed dose(s) of a vac­cine or vac­cine com­bi­na­tion ap­proved by the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WHO).

And some 167,881 peo­ple have re­ceived their boost­er dos­es of a COVID-19 vac­cine, as of Thurs­day, Au­gust 18, the Min­istry’s up­date re­ports.  Boost­er dos­es are ad­di­tion­al pri­ma­ry dos­es and boost­er dos­es of the COVID-19 vac­cine.