Two more per­sons have died from COVID-19, brin­ing the to­tal to 17, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est of­fi­cial up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

In its 10am up­date for to­day, Fri­day 28 Au­gust 2020, the Min­istry is re­port­ing that the per­sons who passed away were el­der­ly males with pre-ex­ist­ing health con­di­tions.

The Min­istry al­so re­ports 36 new cas­es of COVID-19, bring­ing the cur­rent ac­tive to­tal to 867 per­sons.

Oth­er high­lights from the Min­istry of Health up­date:

The Min­istry of Health re­grets to in­form the pub­lic that there are two ad­di­tion­al COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths. The per­sons are both el­der­ly males with co-mor­bidi­ties. This brings the to­tal num­ber of COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths to 17.

* The thir­ty-six (36) pos­i­tive cas­es re­port­ed be­low show re­sults from sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od Au­gust 20th to Au­gust 27th, 2020. There­fore, this fig­ure is NOT rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the pos­i­tive cas­es over the last 24 hours on­ly.

* Thir­ty-six (36) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID -19. A clus­ter of nine (9) non-na­tion­als is in­clud­ed in this group. The re­main­ing 27 per­sons are na­tion­als. All es­tab­lished pro­to­cols have been im­ple­ment­ed.

* Thir­ty-four per­sons have been dis­charged.

The fol­low­ing is the com­plete clin­i­cal up­date from the Min­istry...

TRINIDAD AND TO­BA­GO COVID-19 (NOV­EL CORO­N­AVIRUS) UP­DATE #424

Port-of-Spain, Au­gust 28th 2020: As part of the na­tion­al dri­ve to safe­guard the health of the Trinidad and To­ba­go pop­u­la­tion in the face of the glob­al COVID-19 out­break, the Min­istry of Health con­tin­ues to pro­vide up-to-date in­for­ma­tion on the coun­try’s sta­tus in this re­gard.

The pop­u­la­tion is re­mind­ed to source your in­for­ma­tion on­ly from of­fi­cial sources, such as the Min­istry of Health.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Fri­day 28th Au­gust, 2020:

• Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19. 22,792

• Num­ber of unique pa­tient tests com­plet­ed 19,870

• Num­ber of re­peat­ed tests 2,922

• Num­ber of sam­ples which have test­ed pos­i­tive at pub­lic and pri­vate fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go 1,512

• To­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es 867

• Num­ber of deaths 17

• Num­ber of per­sons dis­charged 628

The thir­ty-six (36) pos­i­tive cas­es re­port­ed be­low show re­sults from sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od Au­gust 20th to Au­gust 27th, 2020. There­fore, this fig­ure is NOT rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the pos­i­tive cas­es over the last 24 hours on­ly.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing up­date:

The Min­istry of Health re­grets to in­form the pub­lic that there are two ad­di­tion­al COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths. The per­sons are both el­der­ly males with co-mor­bidi­ties. This brings the to­tal num­ber of COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths to 17.

• Thir­ty -six (36) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID -19. A clus­ter of nine (9) non-na­tion­als is in­clud­ed in this group. The re­main­ing 27 per­sons are na­tion­als. All es­tab­lished pro­to­cols have been im­ple­ment­ed.

• Thir­ty-four per­sons have been dis­charged.

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Hos­pi­tal – (99)

Six Hun­dred and sev­en­ty- five (675) pa­tients have been home quar­an­tined un­der the con­tin­u­ous mon­i­tor­ing of the re­spec­tive Coun­ty Med­ical Of­fi­cer Health (CMOH) of­fices.

Forty- sev­en (47) pa­tients are en-route/ be­ing ad­mit­ted to hos­pi­tal

Thir­ty-six (36) new pa­tients will be processed for ad­mis­sion.

• Cou­va Hos­pi­tal and Mul­ti-Train­ing Fa­cil­i­ty 85 [5 (ICU); 10 (HDU)]

• Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal 14

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Step-down / Tran­si­tion Fa­cil­i­ties – (10)

• Brook­lyn Fa­cil­i­ty, San­gre Grande 0

• Ba­lan­dra 2

• Tacarigua 2

• UWI, Debe 3

• UWI, Cana­da Hall 0

• UWI, Free­dom Hall 0

• NA­PA 3

In­ten­sive Care Units (ICUs) are hos­pi­tal wards that pro­vide treat­ment for peo­ple who are very ill. They are staffed with health care pro­fes­sion­als who are trained in ICU treat­ment and the use of so­phis­ti­cat­ed mon­i­tor­ing equip­ment.

High De­pen­den­cy Units (HDUs) are wards for peo­ple who need more ob­ser­va­tion, treat­ment and nurs­ing care than is pos­si­ble in a gen­er­al ward but slight­ly less than that giv­en in an In­ten­sive Care Unit.

An Am­bu­la­to­ry Pa­tient is able to walk about and is not bedrid­den.

If you or a loved one de­vel­ops symp­toms of COVID-19, please call the hot­line 877-WELL or 800-WELL (9355) for fur­ther guid­ance.

If the per­son is se­vere­ly ill, call the 811 (emer­gency hot­line) or call ahead to the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment of your near­est hos­pi­tal for help and go in im­me­di­ate­ly.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go will con­tin­ue to up­date the pub­lic via its of­fi­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels such as:

● The Min­istry of Health’s web­site (health.gov.tt);

● The Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions web­sites (moc.gov.tt and news.gov.tt); and

● The rel­e­vant so­cial me­dia pages of these en­ti­ties (Face­book, Twit­ter and In­sta­gram).

Please note:

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are re­mind­ed that they must ad­here to the ‘New Nor­mal’ rec­om­men­da­tions and take the fol­low­ing per­son­al health mea­sures to pro­tect them­selves and their loved ones from COVID-19:

● Wear a mask over your nose and mouth when you go out in pub­lic

● Keep your dis­tance from oth­ers (6 feet)

● Stay home if you are ill

● Clean then sani­tise sur­faces (e.g. table­tops, door knobs and cell phones)

● Wash your hands of­ten with soap and wa­ters or use an al­co­hol-based hand sani­tis­er

● Cough in­to a tis­sue or in­to the cook of your el­bow

● Avoid touch­ing your face