Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh says while there is no rea­son to be over­ly con­cerned over re­cent COVID-19 fig­ures, peo­ple suf­fer­ing with health is­sues who may be par­tic­u­lar­ly vul­ner­a­ble to the virus should still take the nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions to avoid in­fec­tion.

Speak­ing with re­porters at the start of a TT Moves Walkaton at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, Port of Spain, on Sat­ur­day, Deyals­ingh re­port­ed that there were about ten COVID-19 pa­tients in Trinidad, with five in the Cou­va Hos­pi­tal and an­oth­er five in the Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal.

He said the ma­jor­i­ty of re­cent cas­es were cat­e­gorised as 'in­ci­den­tal' COVID cas­es were pa­tients were un­aware that they were pos­i­tive.

"So the ma­jor­i­ty of cas­es are peo­ple like that who are com­ing in for oth­er pro­ce­dures and they find out they had COVID.

"I got some stats from Dr (Av­ery) Hinds two days ago, the rolling sev­en day av­er­age is now three.

"Re­mem­ber in the bad old days it was 1000 or 700, right now it's three, so that tells you COVID in Trinidad and To­ba­go right now isn't some­thing to be over­ly con­cerned about."

De­spite the low in­ci­dence of COVID-19 cas­es, Deyals­ingh still urged peo­ple with health is­sues to wash their hands reg­u­lar­ly and wear masks where pos­si­ble.