RISHARD KHAN
rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

COVID-19 cas­es are on the rise.

Ac­cord­ing to Tech­ni­cal Di­rec­tor of the Min­istry of Health's Epi­demi­ol­o­gy Di­vi­sion, Dr Av­ery Hinds, there has been a slow but steady in­crease in case num­bers over the past three weeks.

Dr Hinds said the largest in­crease of 8 per cent was record­ed over the past two weeks.

He warns that the pub­lic needs to ad­here to the pub­lic health pro­to­cols and do their part to pre­vent this grad­ual in­crease from ex­plod­ing.

Dr Hinds says these health pro­to­cols, com­bined with mass vac­ci­na­tion, are key el­e­ments in help­ing to re­duce the num­bers of peo­ple be­com­ing se­ri­ous­ly ill should they con­tract COVID-19.