T&T has now record­ed 103 cas­es of COVID-19.

In its lat­est up­date Sat­ur­day, the Min­istry of Health con­firmed the fig­ure, not­ing that some 736 peo­ple had now been test­ed for the virus. The num­ber of deaths re­mained at six while one pa­tient has so far been dis­charged.

The pos­i­tive cas­es in­creased by two from the morn­ing up­date pro­vid­ed by the min­istry. It not­ed that of the over­all fig­ure, 49 of the pos­i­tive cas­es came from the group of 68 na­tion­als who re­cent­ly re­turned from a Caribbean cruise.

The news comes even as the min­istry said it has moved 17 pa­tients from the Cou­va Hos­pi­tal to Cau­ra as they show signs of re­cov­ery. The pa­tients were re­port­ed­ly moved on Fri­day night.

The min­istry re­mind­ed the pub­lic to avoid touch­ing their faces with their hands as this in­creas­es the risk of con­tract­ing the virus and to them­selves by wash­ing their hands of­ten with soap and wa­ter or by us­ing an al­co­hol-based san­i­tiz­er that con­tains at least 60 per cent al­co­hol. It al­so re­mind­ed the pub­lic to main­tain at least 2 me­tres (ap­prox­i­mate­ly six feet) dis­tanc­ing be­tween your­self and oth­ers.