Six months af­ter re­cov­er­ing from COVID-19, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has a close en­counter with the virus again.

He has been iden­ti­fied as a pri­ma­ry con­tact of some­one with COVID-19.

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter’s Face­book post on Sat­ur­day said Row­ley was iso­lat­ed and test­ed as re­quired by ex­ist­ing health pro­to­cols.

He is ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed with the Sinopharm COVID-19 vac­cine, while his test re­sults are neg­a­tive, he will re­main in iso­la­tion un­til a sec­ond test is con­duct­ed next week.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip David Lee said Row­ley was part of a par­lia­men­tary sit­ting last week. He said while the Op­po­si­tion was con­cerned, mem­bers were pre­pared to fol­low any guide­lines giv­en to them.

Ayanna Webster-Roy

Lee said he knew Row­ley was in Par­lia­ment on Wednes­day and if they need­ed to do any­thing.

At a PNM meet­ing on Tues­day night, Row­ley had re­vealed that a min­is­ter and their en­tire fam­i­ly were in iso­la­tion.

MP for To­ba­go East Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy con­firmed on Sat­ur­day that she and her fam­i­ly had con­tract­ed the virus, with the ex­cep­tion of her nine-year-old son.

She post­ed on her Face­book page, "To­day marks the fourth day of our 20-day manda­to­ry quar­an­tine pe­ri­od.

"On day four, we are near­ly back to nor­mal health. Apart from a mild fever dur­ing the ini­tial phase, my son is symp­tom-free.

"My daugh­ter and I both have some mild con­ges­tion still, but that is it! I am eter­nal­ly grate­ful to God for His mer­cy and to all the health pro­fes­sion­als who have in­ter­act­ed with me and my fam­i­ly since we were test­ed."

Web­ster-Roy said she was al­so ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed with the Sinopharm COVID-19 vac­cine in June.