Thir­ty-two (32) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go to 1,061.

That’s ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health, in its 6 pm re­port, to­day.

How­ev­er, the Min­istry stress­es that they cov­er the re­sults of sam­ples test­ed dur­ing the pe­ri­od Au­gust 23rd to Au­gust 31st, 2020.

Oth­er high­lights from the Min­istry’s up­date, this evening, in­clude the fol­low­ing:

●  The to­tal num­ber of deaths from COVID-19 holds steady at 22, as no new deaths have been re­port­ed since this morn­ing..

●  The to­tal num­ber of COVID-19 sur­vivors stands at 676—the num­ber of per­sons dis­charged from health fa­cil­i­ties, since the pan­dem­ic be­gan in T&T, ear­li­er this year.

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

TRINIDAD AND TO­BA­GO COVID-19 (NOV­EL CORO­N­AVIRUS) UP­DATE #430

Port-of-Spain, Au­gust 31, 2020: As part of the na­tion­al dri­ve to safe­guard the health of the Trinidad and To­ba­go pop­u­la­tion in the face of the glob­al COVID-19 out­break, the Min­istry of Health con­tin­ues to pro­vide up-to-date in­for­ma­tion on the coun­try’s sta­tus in this re­gard.

The pop­u­la­tion is re­mind­ed to source your in­for­ma­tion on­ly from of­fi­cial sources, such as the Min­istry of Health.

As of the af­ter­noon of Mon­day, 31st Au­gust, 2020 the Min­istry re­ports the fol­low­ing:

● Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 = 23,651

● Num­ber of sam­ples which have test­ed pos­i­tive at pub­lic and pri­vate fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go = 1,759

● To­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es = 1,061

● Num­ber of deaths = 22

● Num­ber of per­sons dis­charged = 676

The thir­ty-two (32) pos­i­tive cas­es re­port­ed be­low show re­sults from sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od Au­gust 23rd to Au­gust 31st, 2020. There­fore, this fig­ure is NOT rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the pos­i­tive cas­es over the last 24 hours on­ly.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing up­date:

● Thir­ty-two (32) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID -19. All es­tab­lished pro­to­cols have been im­ple­ment­ed.

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).