RISHARD KHAN (rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt)

Mon­day's COVID-19 re­lat­ed death was the youngest fa­tal­i­ty to be record­ed lo­cal­ly.

Speak­ing dur­ing a Min­istry of Health vir­tu­al press con­fer­ence on Wednes­day, Prin­ci­pal Med­ical Of­fi­cer in charge of the par­al­lel health­care sys­tem, Dr Maryam Ab­dool-Richards, in­di­cat­ed that the per­son was un­der the age of 25 and had pre-ex­ist­ing med­ical con­di­tions.

The Min­istry's up­date on Mon­day in­di­cat­ed the per­son was a fe­male.

Dr Ab­dool-Richards was un­able to give fur­ther de­tails as to the ex­act age of the per­son or the na­ture of the pre-ex­ist­ing med­ical con­di­tions un­der the prin­ci­ple of pa­tient con­fi­den­tial­i­ty.

She, how­ev­er, re­mind­ed cit­i­zens once again that no one is safe from an ad­verse out­come from a COVID-19 in­fec­tion. 

As of Wednes­day morn­ing, Mon­day's fa­tal­i­ty was the lat­est in the coun­try. Deaths re­main at 106.