The Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­is­tered Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTR­NA) is call­ing for calm, as a work­er at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal tests pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

The As­so­ci­a­tion made this call af­ter a March 27 re­lease by the To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) in­di­cat­ed that a health­care work­er at the in­sti­tu­tion is To­ba­go's sec­ond coro­n­avirus case.

The re­lease not­ed that the staff mem­ber was in­formed and is be­ing giv­en psy­cho­log­i­cal sup­port.

The hos­pi­tal is be­ing "deeply san­i­tized", sched­uled clean­ing con­tin­ued and con­tact-trac­ing is tak­ing place, the TRHA's re­lease al­so not­ed.

In an im­me­di­ate re­sponse to the in­for­ma­tion, TTR­NA pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art said all health­care work­ers must re­main calm.

"We un­der­stand that health­care work­ers will be alarmed,” he said. “How­ev­er, we are call­ing for calm and for per­sons to fol­low the rec­om­men­da­tions made by the Gov­ern­ment and med­ical pro­fes­sion­als, in this time of un­ease."

He re­it­er­at­ed his call for the TRHA to un­der­take "ro­bust, ac­tive" train­ing of staff in the use of the re­quired Per­son­al Pro­tec­tion Equip­ment (PPE).

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Sto­ry by CAMILLE MCEACH­NIE