COVID-19 in­fec­tions in To­ba­go con­tin­ue to climb, even as pre­vi­ous­ly in­fect­ed peo­ple re­cov­er from the dis­ease.  Some 55 new pos­i­tive cas­es have been re­port­ed over the past 24 hours.  There are now 574 cur­rent ac­tive in­fec­tions on the is­land.

That’s ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), dat­ed Tues­day 10 May 2022.

The re­port al­so notes some 39 peo­ple have been cer­ti­fied as re­cov­ered from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours.  In ad­di­tion, no new deaths have been record­ed, and as such, the death toll re­mains at 266.

The most re­cent death on the is­land, an un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son, was re­port­ed over a week ago, on Sun­day 1 May 2022.

The THA Health Di­vi­sion al­so is re­port­ing that 12 peo­ple cur­rent­ly are hos­pi­talised with COVID-19. Six of these pa­tients have not been vac­ci­nat­ed at all against the dis­ease, while five pa­tients have been ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed, and one per­son is par­tial­ly vac­ci­nat­ed.

The To­ba­go COVID-19 up­date for 10 May 2022 says at present, the to­tal num­ber of peo­ple in To­ba­go who have re­cov­ered from COVID-19 since March 2020, now stands at 8,239.