There were two new deaths—two un­vac­ci­nat­ed peo­ple—from COVID-19 in To­ba­go, dur­ing the pe­ri­od Sun­day 14 to Sat­ur­day 20 Au­gust 2022, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est week­ly up­date from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

To­ba­go’s death toll from the dis­ease is now 279, as at Sat­ur­day, Au­gust 20.  Three COVID-19 deaths had been record­ed the week be­fore, Sun­day 7 to Sat­ur­day 13 Au­gust 2022.

In ad­di­tion, the THA Health Di­vi­sion re­port notes 166 more peo­ple test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go, last week. The num­ber of ac­tive in­fec­tions, as at Sat­ur­day, Au­gust 20, was 210.  This is an in­crease from the pre­vi­ous week (Au­gust 7 to 13, 2022), at which time there were 162 ac­tive cas­es.

In terms of hos­pi­tal­i­sa­tions for COVID-19, the Health Di­vi­sion re­ports that 16 peo­ple are hos­pi­talised.  Nine of these pa­tients are un­vac­ci­nat­ed against the dis­ease, while the re­main­ing sev­en pa­tients are ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed.

The To­ba­go COVID-19 up­date al­so re­ports that pa­tients con­tin­ue to sur­vive the dis­ease as 116 peo­ple were cer­ti­fied as re­cov­ered from COVID-19 dur­ing the pe­ri­od Au­gust 14 to 20, 2022.

A to­tal of 10,398 in To­ba­go have re­cov­ered from COVID-19 since March 2020—up from 10,282 the pre­vi­ous week.