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Tobago records first COVID-19 case

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Casandra Thompson-Forbes
1879 days ago
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The passenger arrived at the ANR Robinson International Airport on March 18 and was immediately placed in quarantine.

The passenger arrived at the ANR Robinson International Airport on March 18 and was immediately placed in quarantine.

To­ba­go has record­ed its first COVID-19 case. The an­nounce­ment was made via a press re­lease is­sued by the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly’s Di­vi­sion of Health and Well­ness and Fam­i­ly De­vel­op­ment yes­ter­day evening.

The state­ment said that the Trinidad and To­ba­go res­i­dent ar­rived in To­ba­go on an in­ter­na­tion­al flight on Wednes­day 18th March 2020 and was placed in quar­an­tine.

“In keep­ing with the Di­vi­sion’s pro­to­cols, im­me­di­ate­ly up­on dis­em­bark­ing, the in­di­vid­ual was screened by the Port Health Au­thor­i­ties at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port. The in­di­vid­ual was im­me­di­ate­ly placed in one of our se­cured quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties for a planned pe­ri­od of four­teen (14) days,” the state­ment said.

It added: “Five days lat­er, on March 22nd, 2020, the in­di­vid­ual de­vel­oped symp­toms and was ad­mit­ted to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. A sam­ple was tak­en and rushed to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) lab­o­ra­to­ry to be test­ed for COVID-19, which has since re­turned pos­i­tive.”

The Di­vi­sion said it re­ceived the re­sults at 5.30 pm yes­ter­day. This took the count in Trinidad and To­ba­go to 52.

“Giv­en that the in­di­vid­ual is un­well, the per­son will be trans­ferred to Trinidad to un­der­go ad­di­tion­al treat­ment, as per es­tab­lished pro­to­cols,” the state­ment said.

The Di­vi­sion not­ed that the re­main­ing per­sons at the Di­vi­sion’s quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties re­main in good health and con­tin­ue to be mon­i­tored twice dai­ly. The state­ment al­so re­mind­ed the pub­lic that the im­ple­men­ta­tion of sim­ple, pre­ven­ta­tive mea­sures will re­duce the risk of con­tract­ing COVID-19. Up to yes­ter­day, 62 per­sons were said to be un­der quar­an­tine at fa­cil­i­ties in To­ba­go.

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