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Thursday, August 21, 2025

COVID-19 not top killer in T&T

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RISHARD KHAN
1491 days ago
20210721
Dr Avery Hinds, Technical Director at the Epidemiology Division, Ministry of Health.

Dr Avery Hinds, Technical Director at the Epidemiology Division, Ministry of Health.

RISHARD KHAN

De­spite the coun­try record­ing 1,000 COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths, the dis­ease does not hold the top spot for the biggest con­trib­u­tor to deaths lo­cal­ly.

Con­fir­ma­tion came on Wednes­day from the Health Min­istry's Dr Av­ery Hinds, Tech­ni­cal Di­rec­tor at the Epi­demi­ol­o­gy Di­vi­sion, dur­ing the Min­istry's vir­tu­al press brief­ing.

"The num­ber one killer has not ac­tu­al­ly changed with re­spect to NCDs [non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases], car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease etc., be­ing re­spon­si­ble for the ma­jor­i­ty of the deaths that oc­cur on a giv­en time­frame," he said.

"It [COVID-19] has man­i­fest­ed it­self as an acute change in the caus­es of death and that in and of it­self makes it im­por­tant,” Dr Hinds ex­plained, “but that does not fall in­to the num­ber one spot by any stretch of the imag­i­na­tion ei­ther lo­cal­ly nor glob­al­ly."


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