RYAN BA­CHOO

Eight more peo­ple—four el­der­ly males, three el­der­ly fe­males, and one mid­dle-aged fe­male—have lost their lives to COVID-19, be­tween March 1 and 7, 2023, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry of Health.  These lat­est deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll for COVID-19 to 4,355 lives lost.

The Min­istry says of the eight de­ceased, six of them had mul­ti­ple co­mor­bidi­ties, while 2 per­sons each had a sin­gle co­mor­bid­i­ty.

The Min­istry al­so re­ports there were 622 pos­i­tive COVID-19 cas­es record­ed dur­ing March 1-7. At present, the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try is 462.

The rolling sev­en-day av­er­age of pos­i­tive COVID-19 cas­es is now 89 while the rolling sev­en-day av­er­age of deaths is one.

The to­tal num­ber of peo­ple in Trinidad and To­ba­go who have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19—from Thurs­day 12 March 2020 to Tues­day 7 March 2023—is 189,918.

As of to­day, Tues­day, 75 COVID-19 pa­tients are hos­pi­talised, while 400 peo­ple are in home self-iso­la­tion. Some 26 peo­ple were dis­charged from pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties, and 522 com­mu­ni­ty cas­es have been cer­ti­fied as re­cov­ered.

Cur­rent­ly, some 718,629 peo­ple in the coun­try—51.3 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 174,515 peo­ple have re­ceived their boost­er dos­es of a COVID-19 vac­cine, as of to­day, Sun­day, the Min­istry’s up­date re­ports.  Boost­er dos­es are ad­di­tion­al pri­ma­ry dos­es and boost­er dos­es of the COVID-19 vac­cine.