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Friday, July 25, 2025

MOH COVID-19 update: 16 more samples sent for testing

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1884 days ago
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The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the Min­istry of Health:

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.

As of the af­ter­noon of Thurs­day 28th May, 2020 the Min­istry re­ports the fol­low­ing:

 Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) and the UWI site for test­ing for COVID-19  3107
 Num­ber of sam­ples which have test­ed pos­i­tive  116
 Num­ber of deaths  8
 Num­ber of per­sons dis­charged  108

Of the to­tal num­ber of pos­i­tive cas­es, 52 of these pos­i­tive cas­es came from the group of na­tion­als who re­cent­ly re­turned from a cruise:

          49 pos­i­tive cas­es from the group of 68 na­tion­als who re­turned from the cruise to­geth­er

          3 pos­i­tive cas­es from the group of na­tion­als who re­turned from the same cruise sep­a­rate­ly from the oth­er 68 na­tion­als.

The Min­istry of Health re­minds the pub­lic that COVID-19 can be spread by touch­ing sur­faces that are con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed with the nov­el coro­n­avirus. It is im­por­tant to reg­u­lar­ly sani­tise com­mon­ly touched sur­faces (e.g. ta­ble tops, handrails, door knobs and trol­leys). If dirty, they should be cleaned us­ing a de­ter­gent or soap and wa­ter pri­or to san­i­ti­za­tion. A sim­ple so­lu­tion of 1/3 cup of house­hold bleach to one gal­lon of wa­ter is quite ef­fec­tive.

The im­por­tant el­e­ments of sani­ti­sa­tion are dis­in­fect­ing fre­quent­ly and thor­ough­ly, and us­ing the clean­ing prod­uct cor­rect­ly.

The pub­lic is al­so strong­ly ad­vised to take the fol­low­ing per­son­al hy­giene mea­sures to pro­tect them­selves and their loved ones from COVID-19:

     Cov­er your nose and mouth with a tis­sue when you cough or sneeze

o   Dis­pose of tis­sue im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter us­ing

o   Cough and sneeze in­to the crook of your el­bow if you do not have a tis­sue

      Stay home if you are ill

     San­i­tize hard sur­faces (e.g. ta­ble tops, handrails, door­knobs and trol­leys) as of­ten as pos­si­ble.

      Avoid close con­tact with peo­ple who have flu-like symp­toms

      Prac­tice so­cial dis­tanc­ing

o   Main­tain at least 2 me­tres (ap­prox­i­mate­ly 6 feet) dis­tance be­tween your­self and oth­ers, es­pe­cial­ly any­one who is cough­ing or show­ing signs of flu-like ill­ness.

It is al­so ad­vised that all pub­lic trans­porta­tion ve­hi­cles should op­er­ate with win­dows open and lim­it their oc­cu­pan­cy.

The Min­istry will con­tin­ue to pro­vide ac­cu­rate in­for­ma­tion to the pub­lic in a time­ly fash­ion. The pub­lic is there­fore urged to dis­re­gard and avoid shar­ing all un­con­firmed, mis­lead­ing and/or false in­for­ma­tion about COVID-19 (for­mer­ly Nov­el Coro­n­avirus).


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