An el­der­ly male with mul­ti­ple co­mor­bidi­ties is the lat­est per­son to have lost his life to COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the most re­cent ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry of Health. His death has pushed up the na­tion­al death toll to 4,162 lives lost.

In its up­date for to­day, Tues­day 6 Sep­tem­ber 2022, the Min­istry of Health al­so re­ports that 302 more peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.  At present, the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try is 5,365.

The to­tal num­ber of peo­ple in Trinidad and To­ba­go who have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19—from Thurs­day 12 March 2020 to Tues­day 6 Sep­tem­ber 2022—is 180,310.

As of to­day, Tues­day, 205 COVID-19 pa­tients are hos­pi­talised, 12 of whom are in step-down fa­cil­i­ties.  Mean­while, some 5,160 peo­ple are in home self-iso­la­tion.  Some 14 peo­ple were dis­charged from pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties, and 397 com­mu­ni­ty cas­es have been cer­ti­fied as re­cov­ered.

Cur­rent­ly, some 716,532 peo­ple in the coun­try—51.2 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 168,340 peo­ple have re­ceived their boost­er dos­es of a COVID-19 vac­cine, as of to­day, Tues­day, the Min­istry’s up­date re­ports. Boost­er dos­es are ad­di­tion­al pri­ma­ry dos­es and boost­er dos­es of the COVID-19 vac­cine.