Rishard Khan

rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

Af­ter giv­ing a stern warn­ing last week to the pub­lic to ex­er­cise vig­i­lance and re­spon­si­bil­i­ty over the week­end, Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh is sat­is­fied with the re­sponse over the East­er hol­i­day.

The min­is­ter said he was in To­ba­go dur­ing this year's hol­i­day and last year's.

"I would say, from my anec­do­tal, non-sci­en­tif­ic poll, that peo­ple seemed this East­er, to be more re­spon­si­ble in my view. Very un­sci­en­tif­ic. Just me look­ing on," he said.

He said that based on feed­back he's re­ceived from mem­bers of the pub­lic, the pop­u­la­tion has a good un­der­stand­ing of their role in con­trol­ling the pan­dem­ic.

"A lot of peo­ple don't want to regress the sit­u­a­tion and I think a lot of peo­ple- not all- will do the right things," he said.

He said this re­spon­si­bil­i­ty is al­so ex­pressed in the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty.

De­spite this, he said he was con­cerned with ob­ser­va­tions he made on In­de­pen­dence Square on Wednes­day morn­ing. He said he no­ticed "a lot of peo­ple not wear­ing masks or wear­ing masks prop­er­ly."

He said now that there are less re­stric­tions on move­ment, peo­ple need to ad­here to the pub­lic health guide­lines.