A T&T na­tion­al who spent sev­er­al months wait­ing to re-en­ter the coun­try as bor­ders re­mained closed in the past sev­er­al months is plead­ing with health au­thor­i­ties to do bet­ter re­gard­ing the ser­vices and ameni­ties at state quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties.

The lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health is con­firm­ing 47 new pos­i­tive cas­es of COVID-19, with 30 of them be­ing off­shore work­ers, and one per­son be­ing re­cent­ly repa­tri­at­ed.

The lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health is con­firm­ing 12 new pos­i­tive cas­es of COVID-19, with three of these be­ing re­cent­ly repa­tri­at­ed per­sons, and two of them com­ing from To­ba­go.

The Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers Union (BIG­WU) has writ­ten to Dr Roshan Paras­ram, Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) at the Min­istry of Health, ask­ing him to in­ter­vene in the sit­u­a­tion at off­shore plat­forms be­long­ing to en­er­gy com­pa­ny Peren­co, where sev­er­al work­ers have con­tract­ed COVID-19.

The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AATT) is re­as­sur­ing the trav­el­ling pub­lic that it has im­ple­ment­ed—and con­tin­ues to op­er­ate—sev­er­al health and safe­ty pro­to­cols at both na­tion­al air­ports—the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in Trinidad, and ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in To­ba­go.

The Min­istry of Health has is­sued an ad­vi­so­ry out­lin­ing new pro­to­cols to treat with the new­ly iden­ti­fied strain of COVID-19, which has pre­sent­ed in the Unit­ed King­dom (UK).

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley met with His Ex­cel­len­cy Car­los Amador Perez Sil­va, Am­bas­sador of the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela to the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre to­day (Mon­day 21 De­cem­ber 2020).

There have been two new deaths from COVID-19, bring­ing the na­tion­al death toll to 125 per­sons, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

Pas­sen­gers trav­el­ling to Trinidad from To­ba­go on Caribbean Air­lines flight num­ber BW1501 on Sat­ur­day morn­ing al­leged that no COVID-19 safe­ty pro­to­cols were fol­lowed at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port be­fore board­ing the first flight.

The lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health is con­firm­ing 26 new pos­i­tive cas­es of COVID-19, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try to 420 pa­tients.

With Christ­mas just five days away, the Sun­day Guardian asked some promi­nent peo­ple in T&T how they were go­ing to cel­e­brate Christ­mas amid the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

T&T-born doc­tor Ma­teus Fer­nan­des, who lives and works in the US, was among the his­toric first round of health-care work­ers to be im­mu­nised with Pfiz­er’s COVID-19 vac­cine last Thurs­day.