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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

'25 days since Tobago last recorded COVID case'

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Anna-Lisa Paul
1691 days ago
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OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER

It has been 25 days since To­ba­go last record­ed a COVID-19 pos­i­tive case.

At­tribut­ing this feat to ag­gres­sive plan­ning and prepa­ra­tions, To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Health Sec­re­tary Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine said while this meant there was no ac­tive COVID case cur­rent­ly on the is­land, it did not mean they were COVID free.

Join­ing the Prime Min­is­ter and Health Min­is­ter along with her team at the Scar­bor­ough Li­brary Fa­cil­i­ty for Sat­ur­day’s brief­ing, David­son-Ce­les­tine cau­tioned, “It means that no new case has emerged for test­ing.”

Com­mend­ing health care providers for pulling out all the stops as well as the pub­lic for ad­her­ing to the reg­u­la­tions, she urged peo­ple to con­tin­ue com­ing for­ward for test­ing if they are dis­play­ing symp­toms.

She warned, “Not hav­ing a test­ed pos­i­tive case is not a li­cence to flout our reg­u­la­tions.” Con­firm­ing that health in­spec­tors con­tin­ued to con­duct in­spec­tions and car­ry out checks, she said they could not fal­ter in the fight to get this virus un­der con­trol.

Turn­ing her at­ten­tion to fel­low To­bag­o­ni­ans who had lost jobs or suf­fered re­duced in­comes, the Health Sec­re­tary urged them to re­group and take ad­van­tage of the op­por­tu­ni­ties avail­able to them via the State.

She said, “If we are to restart the process of mov­ing the econ­o­my for­ward, our lives will be able to move for­ward as well.”

Dr Rox­anne Mitchell claimed the non-pre­sen­ta­tion of a COVID-case in the last 25 days on the is­land was as a re­sult of con­cen­trat­ed and ag­gres­sive pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary con­tact trac­ing ef­forts, along with rapid con­tain­ment mea­sures, and en­force­ment by the po­lice.

She said it was im­por­tant that peo­ple not be­come com­pla­cent in their ef­forts to en­sure the virus does not spread.

Paras­ram:Au­thor­i­ties care­ful­ly mon­i­tor­ing epi­demi­o­log­i­cal trends

Pro­vid­ing the clin­i­cal up­date Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram said the au­thor­i­ties were care­ful­ly mon­i­tor­ing epi­demi­o­log­i­cal trends over the last two weeks.

“We are see­ing a slight in­crease in the up­ward di­rec­tion over the last two weeks so it has be­come a lit­tle more acute over the last week or so…no­tably so…with a dai­ly av­er­age of 37 and it is a cause for con­cern.”

He said they could not ig­nore in­creas­es, as small as they might be, as this could bal­loon in­to some­thing more sig­nif­i­cant quick­ly as ev­i­denced by what was hap­pen­ing in oth­ers parts of the world.

Paras­ram re­it­er­at­ed that COVID-19 was un­re­lent­ing and un­for­giv­ing, but he too urged peo­ple to con­tin­ue ad­her­ing to pub­lic health reg­u­la­tions as he said clus­ter cas­es were be­ing found in homes and work­places where peo­ple felt se­cure and com­fort­able to re­move masks and in­ter­act as usu­al.

With 589 ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try, he said the hos­pi­tal oc­cu­pan­cy rate was just around 13 per cent. Mean­while, 63 new cas­es were record­ed on Sat­ur­day.

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