Fol­low­ing US House Speak­er Nan­cy Pelosi's vis­it to Tai­wan, the Charge d’Af­faires of the Chi­nese Em­bassy to T&T, Coun­selor Yang Han pre­sent­ed a num­ber of ques­tions and their an­swers to Guardian Me­dia.

The fol­low­ing is a bul­letin is­sued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS):

The Min­istry of Health did not record any COVID-re­lat­ed deaths to­day. The to­tal num­ber of deaths stands at 4070. There are cur­rent­ly 178 pa­tients in the hos­pi­tal. The min­istry has al­so record­ed 327 new COVID cas­es in the last 24 hours, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 6,638.

A me­chan­i­cal prob­lem af­fect­ing one of the pumps at the  Siparia Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant has dis­rupt­ed the wa­ter sup­ply to cus­tomers in parts of Siparia. Ac­cord­ing to a press re­lease from the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (the Au­thor­i­ty), emer­gency re­pair work is cur­rent­ly un­der­way and is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed on Au­gust 12th.