For the sec­ond straight week, there were no new COVID-19 death re­port­ed in To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est week­ly up­date, cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od Sun­day 23 to Sat­ur­day 30 Oc­to­ber 2022, from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

As such, the is­land’s death toll from the dis­ease re­mains at 286, as at Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 30.

The most re­cent­ly record­ed COVID-19-re­lat­ed death was that of an un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son dur­ing the week of Oc­to­ber 9 to 15, 2022.

In ad­di­tion, the THA Health Di­vi­sion re­port notes sev­en more peo­ple test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go, last week. The num­ber of ac­tive in­fec­tions, as at Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 30, was 58. This rep­re­sents a slight in­crease from the pre­vi­ous week (16-22 Oc­to­ber 2022), at which time there were 53 ac­tive cas­es.

In terms of hos­pi­tal­i­sa­tions for COVID-19, the Health Di­vi­sion re­ports that six peo­ple are hos­pi­talised, five of whom have not been vac­ci­nat­ed against the dis­ease, while the re­main­ing pa­tient is said to be ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed.

The To­ba­go COVID-19 up­date al­so re­ports that pa­tients con­tin­ue to sur­vive the dis­ease as two peo­ple were cer­ti­fied as re­cov­ered from COVID-19 dur­ing the pe­ri­od Oc­to­ber 23 to 30, 2022.

A to­tal of 10,898 in To­ba­go have re­cov­ered from COVID-19 since March 2020—up from 10,896 the pre­vi­ous week.