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Friday, July 18, 2025

Another COVID death recorded, but more patients recover

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NEWS DESK
1732 days ago
20201019

The lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health is re­port­ing one more death from COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, bring­ing the na­tion­al to­tal to 97.

The Min­istry al­so re­ports in its up­date for to­day, Mon­day 19 Oc­to­ber 2020, just one more per­son has test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19. This brings the num­ber of ac­tive cas­es to 1,505 pa­tients.

There has been a drop in the num­ber of ac­tive cas­es (from 1,549 yes­ter­day) as 44 per­sons ap­pear to have ful­ly re­cov­ered: 41 from home self-iso­la­tion; and three from step/down fa­cil­i­ties.

The Health Min­istry al­so notes:

● 81 per­sons are still hos­pi­talised for COVID-19, no change from yes­ter­day.

● 1,372 per­sons are in home self-iso­la­tion, down from 1413, yes­ter­day.

● 299 per­sons are in State quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties, no change from yes­ter­day.

● 52 pa­tients are in step/down fa­cil­i­ties, down by three per­sons from 55, yes­ter­day.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are re­mind­ed that they must ad­here to the ‘New Nor­mal’ rec­om­men­da­tions and take the fol­low­ing per­son­al health mea­sures to pro­tect them­selves and their loved ones from COVID-19:

●   Wear a mask over your nose and mouth when you go out in pub­lic

●   Keep your dis­tance from oth­ers (6 feet)

●   Stay home if you are ill

●   Clean then sani­tise sur­faces (e.g. table­tops, door knobs and cell phones)

●   Wash your hands of­ten with soap and wa­ters or use an al­co­hol-based hand sani­tis­er

●   Cough in­to a tis­sue or in­to the cook of your el­bow

●   Avoid touch­ing your face

If you or a loved one de­vel­ops symp­toms of COVID-19, please call the hot­line 877-WELL or 800-WELL (9355) for fur­ther guid­ance.

If the per­son is se­vere­ly ill, call the 811 (emer­gency hot­line) or call ahead to the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment of your near­est hos­pi­tal for help and go in im­me­di­ate­ly.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go will con­tin­ue to up­date the pub­lic via its of­fi­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels such as:

●  The Min­istry of Health’s web­site (health.gov.tt);

●  The Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions web­sites (moc.gov.tt and news.gov.tt); and

●  The rel­e­vant so­cial me­dia pages of these en­ti­ties (Face­book, Twit­ter and In­sta­gram).

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