KEVON FELMINE

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

As pub­lic health of­fi­cials have now de­clared her COVID-19-free, Point Fortin May­or Saleema Thomas says her burgess­es can ex­pect ad­di­tion­al pub­lic health aware­ness cam­paigns in the com­ing weeks.Three weeks af­ter Thomas, who is preg­nant with her third child, test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, an­oth­er test has re­turned neg­a­tive and she has been cleared to re­turn to pub­lic ac­tiv­i­ty.

In a me­dia re­lease via the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion yes­ter­day, Thomas said the cam­paigns will con­tin­ue to high­light health mea­sures and pro­to­cols to en­sure safe­ty dur­ing the pan­dem­ic.

“My con­di­tion and that of my un­born child is good at this time and I thank all those who ex­pressed con­cern about my health sta­tus, along with per­sons who sent best wish­es for my suc­cess­ful re­cov­ery,”  Thomas said in the state­ment.

She added: “I am thank­ful to the St Patrick CMOH, Dr Kalicha­ran Ram­nar­ine and Dr Allyssa Per­sad of the sur­veil­lance team in the per­for­mance of their du­ties and the ex­cel­lent sup­port they pro­vid­ed.” 

At the end of last month, Thomas fell ill and im­me­di­ate­ly went in­to iso­la­tion at home and con­tact­ed her doc­tors.

De­spite test­ing pos­i­tive, she con­tin­ued her du­ties, host­ing vir­tu­al meet­ings with the Point Fortin Bor­ough Coun­cil and her staff. 
An ad­vo­cate for vac­ci­na­tions, Thomas said she would have tak­en the COVID-19 shot but doc­tors ad­vised her to ab­stain due to her preg­nan­cy. It is un­known how she con­tract­ed the dis­ease.

A few oth­er work­ers con­tract­ed the dis­ease at the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion. Up to last week, there were two deaths re­port­ed.