The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the Min­istry of Health:

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Mon­day

Sep­tem­ber 14, 2020:

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­licHealth Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19. 27,006

Num­ber of unique pa­tient tests com­plet­ed 23,963

Num­ber of re­peat­ed tests 3,043

Num­ber of sam­ples which have test­ed pos­i­tive at pub­lic and pri­vate fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go 3,091

To­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es 2,250

Num­ber of deaths 54

Num­ber of per­sons dis­charged 787

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing up­date:

 Forty–nine (49) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID -19.

The forty–nine (49) pos­i­tive cas­es re­port­ed shows re­sults from sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od Sep­tem­ber 3rd to Sep­tem­ber 12th, 2020. There­fore, this fig­ure is NOT rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the pos­i­tive cas­es over the last 24 hours on­ly. All es­tab­lished pro­to­cols have been im­ple­ment­ed.

 The Min­istry of Health re­grets to in­form the pub­lic that there is an ad­di­tion­al COVID-19 re­lat­ed death. The per­son is an el­der­ly male with co-mor­bidi­ties. This brings the to­tal num­ber of COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths to 54.

 Fif­teen (15) per­sons have been dis­charged.

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Hos­pi­tal – (102)

One thou­sand nine hun­dred and fifty-nine (1959) pa­tients have been home iso­lat­ed un­der the con­tin­u­ous mon­i­tor­ing of the re­spec­tive Coun­ty Med­ical Of­fi­cer Health (CMOH) of­fices.

Forty-nine (49) new pa­tients will be processed for ad­mis­sion at the dis­cre­tion of the CMOHs.

Cou­va Hos­pi­tal and Mul­ti-Train­ing Fa­cil­i­ty 70

3 (ICU)

5 (HDU)

Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal 27

Ari­ma Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal 5 (ICU)

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Step-down / Tran­si­tion Fa­cil­i­ties – 128

Brook­lyn Fa­cil­i­ty, San­gre Grande 0

Ba­lan­dra 0

Tacarigua 0

UWI, Debe 7

UWI, Cana­da hall 50

UWI, Free­dom hall 71

NA­PA 0