The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter has con­firmed that Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is fi­nal­ly out of quar­an­tine and re­sumed work to­day.

“Prime Min­is­ter Dr the Hon Kei­th Row­ley has com­plet­ed the stip­u­lat­ed pe­ri­od of iso­la­tion in keep­ing with Trinidad and To­ba­go's cur­rent COVID-19 pro­to­col,” an of­fi­cial state­ment from the PM’s Of­fice said.

It added: “Dr Row­ley has been cleared to re­sume work with­out re­stric­tion from to­day (Thurs­day 11th Au­gust 2022).”

PM Row­ley test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 al­most two weeks ago and be­cause of his pe­ri­od of quar­an­tine, was forced to can­cel all of his en­gage­ments be­gin­ning at Eman­ci­pa­tion week­end and in­clud­ing his at­ten­dance at the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment fo­rum on Tues­day, as well as the cer­e­mo­ny to con­fer the Or­der of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (OCC) on ca­lyp­son­ian David Rud­der, which was held at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre, on Wednes­day.

His last public event before testing COVID-19 positive... Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley MP signs a painting of the old Police Service Headquarters in Port of Spain, on Wednesday 27 July 2022, at the screening of the CODE 727 documentary. (Image courtesy Office of the Prime Minister)

“Dr Row­ley is ex­pect­ed to at­tend and de­liv­er the keynote ad­dress at the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the Caribbean Broad­cast­ing Union's 53rd Gen­er­al As­sem­bly on Mon­day 15th Au­gust 2022 in To­ba­go,” the re­lease from PM’s Of­fice said.

“Dr Row­ley and his fam­i­ly ex­tend their sin­cer­est thanks to the many thou­sands of cit­i­zens and oth­er well-wish­ers at home and abroad, who ex­pressed their prayers and best wish­es for him dur­ing his two-week pe­ri­od of symp­toms and iso­la­tion,” the state­ment added.