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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Tobago records 18 new cases

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190 days ago
20240820

To­ba­go’s dengue cas­es have climbed to 36, with 18 new cas­es re­port­ed since Au­gust 2. 

In an up­date by the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion Sec­re­tary, Dr Faith B Yis­rael said the is­land has not had any dengue fa­tal­i­ties. 

On Ju­ly 7, a re­lease from the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly stat­ed that the is­land had record­ed its first lab­o­ra­to­ry-con­firmed case of dengue fever, fol­low­ing the wave of dengue cas­es that be­gan in Trinidad in Jan­u­ary 2024. The THA said then that the sus­pect­ed case was flagged by rel­e­vant per­son­nel at the To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA), a sam­ple tak­en, sent for test­ing and con­fir­ma­tion re­ceived on Ju­ly 5.

The THA Sec­re­tary of the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion has been en­cour­ag­ing res­i­dents in To­ba­go to take the sit­u­a­tion se­ri­ous­ly, “as one case can lead to one hun­dred.”

The di­vi­sion had said that the stan­dard re­sponse for dengue cas­es will be car­ried out by the Pub­lic Health Ser­vices De­part­ment of the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion. It said the Vec­tor Con­trol Unit will con­duct an in­spec­tion of the home of a pos­i­tive case, as well as all res­i­dences with­in a 100-me­tre ra­dius, to check for and re­move any mos­qui­to breed­ing sites. It said, ad­di­tion­al­ly, in­door resid­ual spray­ing at the res­i­dence of the case and all res­i­dences ex­tend­ing 100 me­tres out­wards will be car­ried out. 

In to­tal, T&T has re­port­ed 825 dengue cas­es and eight deaths.


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