Three more peo­ple who were quar­an­tined at Camp Ba­lan­dra, af­ter re­turn­ing to Trinidad from a Caribbean cruise, were trans­port­ed to the Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal last night for treat­ment for the nov­el coro­n­avirus (COVID-19).

One of the pas­sen­gers who has been in quar­an­tine at the site since a group of 68 of them re­turned to Trinidad re­cent­ly from Guade­loupe, con­firmed this Fri­day night, mo­ments af­ter an am­bu­lance ar­rived to take three more quar­an­tine pa­tients to Cau­ra. Guardian Me­dia was told that around 8 pm am­bu­lances ar­rived at the Ba­lan­dra fa­cil­i­ty to take three more of the quar­an­tined mem­bers to the Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to the last Min­istry of Health press re­lease Fri­day, there were 66 con­firmed cas­es of the COVID-19 virus in T&T.

Two peo­ple, both el­der­ly men, have died so far from the virus and one per­son has re­cov­ered and been re­leased from hos­pi­tal. Of the over­all fig­ure, the min­istry said 47 of the con­firmed cas­es were peo­ple who were on the cruise, some of them hav­ing ar­rived in­de­pen­dent­ly of the group of 68.

The pas­sen­ger told Guardian Me­dia that fears were run­ning high at the fa­cil­i­ty up to last evening, as some of the re­main­ing 23 peo­ple say they feel as though the quar­an­tine has been a breed­ing ground for the virus. The group is be­ing test­ed twice a day and every time an­oth­er of them tests pos­i­tive, their 14-day long quar­an­tine is restart­ed. One mem­ber said with shared fa­cil­i­ties, in­clud­ing bed­rooms, the risk of in­fec­tion is very high.