To­ba­go has record­ed its first COVID-19 death and the coun­try its sev­enth death from the virus over­all.

A Min­istry of Health re­lease ear­ly Sun­day con­firmed the lat­est death, in­di­cat­ing al­so that of the 797 tests that had so far been sub­mit­ted to CARPHA, 104 had test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

There was very lit­tle in­for­ma­tion in the re­lease about the coun­try's lat­est death, as it on­ly stat­ed that the pa­tient was an "el­der­ly male with a pre-ex­ist­ing med­ical con­di­tion."

How­ev­er, dur­ing a vir­tu­al press con­fer­ence on Sat­ur­day, CMO Dr Roshan Paras­ram did not in­di­cate that the To­ba­go pa­tient was in crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

Since the coun­try's first death more than three weeks ago, the in­for­ma­tion dis­sem­i­nat­ed on those who have suc­cumbed to the virus has dwin­dled. Of the fa­tal­i­ties, there have been six men and one woman.

The re­lease added that the lat­est pos­i­tive case was "pend­ing epi­demi­o­log­i­cal in­ves­ti­ga­tion."

The To­ba­go health au­thor­i­ty in a state­ment al­so dis­closed the death.

"The Sec­re­tary, Ad­min­is­tra­tor, and staff of the Di­vi­sion of Health Well­ness and Fam­i­ly De­vel­op­ment and the Board, Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment team and staff of the To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty ex­press sin­cere con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly and friends of the de­ceased,” the re­lease added.

The re­lease al­so gave the break­down of To­ba­go’s COVID cas­es as fol­lows:

As at Sun­day April 5, 2020, 10 am, up­dates on COVID-19 in To­ba­go are as fol­lows:

• Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) lab­o­ra­to­ry to test for COVID-19 = 74

• Num­ber of sam­ples that test­ed pos­i­tive = 3

• Num­ber of deaths = 1

• Num­ber of per­sons who com­plet­ed quar­an­tine at the Di­vi­sion’s quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties = 19

• Num­ber of re­main­ing per­sons at the Di­vi­sion’s quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties = 43

It is im­por­tant to note that the per­sons who com­plet­ed quar­an­tine at the Di­vi­sion’s quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties have not ex­hib­it­ed any flu-like symp­toms. They have been in quar­an­tine for the to­tal in­cu­ba­tion pe­ri­od of COVID-19 (14 days) and they have been mon­i­tored by health of­fi­cials twice dai­ly. As guid­ed by the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion’s pol­i­cy, those per­sons are now deemed safe to re­turn to so­ci­ety, with­out the risk of in­fect­ing per­sons.