Two more deaths from COVID-19 have been record­ed in Trinidad and To­ba­go—both are el­der­ly males with pre-ex­ist­ing health con­di­tions—bring­ing the na­tion­al toll to 37 per­sons.

In ad­di­tion, twen­ty-three new per­sons have test­ed COVID-19 pos­i­tive, mov­ing the na­tion­al to­tal of ac­tive cas­es to 1,506 pa­tients.

The Min­istry of Health has con­firmed these lat­est fig­ures in its evening up­date for to­day, Mon­day 7 Sep­tem­ber 2020, its most re­cent COVID-19 clin­i­cal up­date.

Oth­er high­lights from the Min­istry's up­date for this evening in­clude:

● Twen­ty-three (23) new pos­i­tive cas­es re­port­ed show re­sults from sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od Au­gust 28th to Sep­tem­ber 6th, 2020. There­fore, this fig­ure is NOT rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the pos­i­tive cas­es over the last 24 hours on­ly.

     -   Twen­ty-two (22) per­sons test­ed pos­i­tive in Trinidad

     -   One (1) per­son test­ed pos­i­tive in To­ba­go

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

TRINIDAD AND TO­BA­GO COVID-19 (NOV­EL CORO­N­AVIRUS) UP­DATE # 445

Port-of-Spain, Sep­tem­ber 7, 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.

As of the af­ter­noon of Mon­day 7th Sep­tem­ber, 2020, the Min­istry re­ports the fol­low­ing:

● Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 = 25,400

● Num­ber of sam­ples which have test­ed pos­i­tive at pub­lic and pri­vate fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go = 2,277

● To­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es = 1,506

● Num­ber of deaths = 37

● Num­ber of per­sons dis­charged = 734

The twen­ty-three (23) pos­i­tive cas­es re­port­ed be­low show re­sults from sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od Au­gust 28th to Sep­tem­ber 6th, 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 adult males with co-mor­bidi­ties. This brings the to­tal num­ber of COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths to 37.

● Twen­ty-three (23) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

- Twen­ty-two (22) per­sons test­ed pos­i­tive in Trinidad

- One (1) per­son test­ed pos­i­tive in To­ba­go

All es­tab­lished pro­to­cols have been im­ple­ment­ed.

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

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).