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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Mask mandate to be lifted by mid-July

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Sharlene Rampersad
986 days ago
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 Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley speaks with Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh during the launch of the Fish Fry Food Court at the Carenage Fishing Centre on Friday.

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley speaks with Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh during the launch of the Fish Fry Food Court at the Carenage Fishing Centre on Friday.

ANISTO ALVES

By the mid­dle of Ju­ly, this coun­try’s mask man­date is ex­pect­ed to be lift­ed.

This an­nounce­ment was made on Sat­ur­day by Prime Min­is­ter, Dr Kei­th Row­ley, while he was speak­ing at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port be­fore leav­ing on a flight to Suri­name.

The Prime Min­is­ter said in the re­cent past, the COVID-19 Omi­cron vari­ant has not been re­placed by any oth­er more dead­ly vari­ant.

“There were one or two vari­ants that have ap­peared, but they have not been of great con­cern be­cause they have not shown to be more dan­ger­ous than Omi­cron,” Row­ley said.

He said by now, a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of the pop­u­la­tion would have been ex­posed to the COVID-19 virus, cre­at­ing nat­ur­al im­mu­ni­ty.

“We now can be­gin to re­move one of the last ves­tiges of the pan­dem­ic, which is the mask we are wear­ing and the Min­is­ter of Health it is our in­ten­tion to re­move the re­quire­ment for wear­ing of masks by the mid­dle of this month,” he said.

The Prime Min­is­ter said at that time the pop­u­la­tion would be al­lowed to choose whether they want to wear masks. How­ev­er, he said there would be some ar­eas the Gov­ern­ment would make “strong sug­ges­tions” that, based on the na­ture of the op­er­a­tions, masks are worn.

He said the re­moval of the mask man­date would be a strong sig­nal that T&T has sur­vived and come through a very fright­en­ing pe­ri­od.

Dr Keith RowleyCOVID-19Mask mandate


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