Four more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry of Health, for Sun­day 14 Au­gust 2022. These lat­est deaths have pushed up the na­tion­al death toll to 4,079 lives lost.

The Min­istry says all four per­sons—one el­der­ly male, two el­der­ly fe­males, and one young fe­male—had mul­ti­ple co­mor­bidi­ties such as di­a­betes, hy­per­ten­sion, heart dis­ease, car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease, kid­ney dis­ease, en­docrine dis­ease and neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­ease.

In its up­date for Sun­day, Au­gust 14, the Min­istry of Health al­so re­ports that 202 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.  At present, the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try is 7,184. 

The num­ber of peo­ple in Trinidad and To­ba­go who have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19—from Thurs­day 12 March 2020 to Sun­day 14 Au­gust 2022—is 175,098.

As of Sun­day, 198 COVID-19 pa­tients are hos­pi­talised (in hos­pi­tal and step-down fa­cil­i­ties), while some 6,986 peo­ple are in home self-iso­la­tion.

Cur­rent­ly, some 715,939 peo­ple in the coun­try are ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed, hav­ing com­plet­ed ei­ther a one-dose or two-dos­es reg­i­men of a COVID-19 vac­cine.  The Min­istry says this rep­re­sents some 51.1 per cent of the pop­u­la­tion.

And some 167,744 peo­ple have re­ceived their boost­er dos­es of a COVID-19 vac­cine, as of Sun­day, Au­gust 14, the Min­istry’s up­date re­ports.  Boost­er dos­es are ad­di­tion­al pri­ma­ry dos­es and boost­er dos­es of the COVID-19 vac­cine.