The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) con­tin­ues its test­ing regime to de­ter­mine the in­ci­dence of COVID-19 in Trinidad and To­ba­go, with the num­ber of sam­ples un­der as­sess­ment ris­ing to 2,906, as of the morn­ing of Sun­day 24 May 2020.

This, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est COVID-19 Up­date from the Min­istry of Health, which al­so con­firms that a to­tal of 2,489 peo­ple have been test­ed since test­ing be­gan, with the num­ber of those con­firmed as pos­i­tive for the dis­ease still at 116 per­sons.

The fol­low­ing is the com­plete clin­i­cal up­date from the Min­istry...

TRINIDAD AND TO­BA­GO COVID-19 (NOV­EL CORO­N­AVIRUS) CLIN­I­CAL UP­DATE #224

As part of the na­tion­al dri­ve to safe­guard the health of the Trinidad and To­ba­go pop­u­la­tion in the face of the glob­al COVID-19 out­break, the Min­istry of Health con­tin­ues to pro­vide up-to-date in­for­ma­tion on the coun­try’s sta­tus in this re­gard.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Sun­day 24th May 2020:

2,906  =  Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) for test­ing for COVID-19

2,489  =  Num­ber of unique pa­tient tests com­plet­ed

417  =  Num­ber of re­peat­ed tests

116  =  Num­ber of sam­ples which have test­ed pos­i­tive

8  =  Num­ber of deaths

108  =  Num­ber of per­sons dis­charged

COVID-19 Pa­tients in Hos­pi­tals

To­tal num­ber of hos­pi­tal­ized pa­tients – 0

*  Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal – 0

Please note:

In­ten­sive Care Units (ICUs) are hos­pi­tal wards that pro­vide treat­ment for peo­ple who are very ill. They are staffed with health care pro­fes­sion­als who are trained in ICU treat­ment and the use of so­phis­ti­cat­ed mon­i­tor­ing equip­ment.

High De­pen­den­cy Units (HDUs) are wards for peo­ple who need more ob­ser­va­tion, treat­ment and nurs­ing care than is pos­si­ble in a gen­er­al ward but slight­ly less than that giv­en in an In­ten­sive Care Unit.

An Am­bu­la­to­ry Pa­tient is able to walk about and is not bedrid­den.