A 57-year-old woman with co­mor­bidi­ties is the lat­est COVID-19 vic­tim in To­ba­go, ac­cord­ing to the up­date for Thurs­day 30 De­cem­ber 2021, re­leased by the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

Ac­cord­ing to the up­date, hers is the on­ly new death record­ed on the is­land over the past 24 hours, and brings the to­tal on the is­land, since March 2020, to 193 lives lost.

There has been an uptick in the num­ber of new pos­i­tive COVID-19 cas­es—some 72 new cas­es were record­ed, bring­ing the cur­rent num­ber of ac­tive pos­i­tive cas­es to 1,396.

The Di­vi­sion’s up­date al­so re­ports that some 1,354 peo­ple cur­rent­ly are in home iso­la­tion; with an­oth­er 32 peo­ple in state iso­la­tion; while five pa­tients are be­ing cared for in ICU; and an­oth­er five per­sons are re­cov­er­ing at a step-down fa­cil­i­ty.

Update courtesy the Division of Health, Wellness and Social Protection, in the Tobago House of Assembly.