The Min­istry of Health has re­leased the lo­ca­tions of COVID-19 cas­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go us­ing a Ge­o­graph­ic In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem (GIS).

In a vir­tu­al press con­fer­ence on Thurs­day, Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer (CMO) Dr Roshan Paras­ram said: "has been help­ing sig­nif­i­cant­ly in the trac­ing of con­tacts and trac­ing of cas­es as we progress through this epi­dem­ic."

The sys­tem, he said, pro­vides an ev­i­dence based plat­form to guide de­ci­sions.

"We are not mak­ing de­ci­sions in an ad-hoc man­ner. We are us­ing tech­nol­o­gy to as­sist us," he said.

How­ev­er, in a sub­se­quent in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia over the tele­phone, the CMO in­di­cat­ed the map pre­sent­ed at the press con­fer­ence was a sam­ple, rep­re­sent­ing on­ly some 10 cas­es.

He said the com­plete­ly pop­u­lat­ed map should be avail­able by next week.