Prime Min­is­ter Dr the Hon. Kei­th Row­ley made ad­just­ments to the ex­ist­ing COVID-19 Pub­lic Health Or­di­nance Reg­u­la­tions at a me­dia con­fer­ence held at Blenheim House, the Prime Min­is­ter’s of­fi­cial res­i­dence in To­ba­go to­day (Fri­day 03rd Sep­tem­ber, 2021).

Dr Row­ley an­nounced the fol­low­ing:

Places of Wor­ship will be al­lowed to op­er­ate from Mon­day 06th Sep­tem­ber, 2021 at 25% ca­pac­i­ty.
There is to be in­creased ca­pac­i­ty on the sea and air bridges. The sea bridge ca­pac­i­ty will be ex­pand­ed from 50% to 75%, while arrange­ments will be made with Caribbean Air­lines to in­crease the num­ber of flights on the air-bridge.

Prime Min­is­ter Row­ley said if in four weeks, the pro­jec­tions con­tin­ue with low COVID-19 pos­i­tive num­bers and con­sis­tent vac­ci­na­tions, the aim will be to re­open bars and al­low in-house din­ing, gyms, cin­e­mas, and pri­vate mem­bers clubs. He said cer­tain as­pects of busi­ness can be­come "safe zones" where vac­ci­nat­ed peo­ple can par­tic­i­pate.

From to­mor­row (Sat­ur­day 04th Sep­tem­ber, 2021), 50,000 dos­es of the Pfiz­er COVID -19 vac­cine will be made avail­able to all el­i­gi­ble mem­bers of the pub­lic. This will be used to vac­ci­nate 25,000 peo­ple.

Dr Row­ley ex­pressed his dis­ap­point­ment with the low vac­ci­na­tion num­bers in To­ba­go. He high­light­ed that there would be a lim­it­ed hos­pi­tal ca­pac­i­ty if there is a surge in COVID-19 in­fec­tions.