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Friday, July 25, 2025

Second case of UK variant detected in T&T

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1564 days ago
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Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards, Principal Medical Officer of Institutions, in the Ministry of Health.

Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards, Principal Medical Officer of Institutions, in the Ministry of Health.

RISHARD KHAN
rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

 

The sec­ond case of some­one in­fect­ed with the UK vari­ant of COVID-19 (B117) has been de­tect­ed in the coun­try.

This was con­firmed by the Min­istry of Health's Prin­ci­pal Med­ical Of­fi­cer of In­sti­tu­tions, Dr Maryam Ab­dool-Richards, dur­ing a vir­tu­al press con­fer­ence on Mon­day.

"I'd like to re­it­er­ate the need for per­sons to fol­low all COVID-19 pre­ven­tion mea­sures. This is in light of in­for­ma­tion that we re­ceived of an­oth­er case or the sec­ond case of the UK vari­ant B117 from a repa­tri­at­ed na­tion­al from the Unit­ed States," she said.

"This per­son is cur­rent­ly re­ceiv­ing med­ical care in the par­al­lel health­care sys­tem and is iso­lat­ed," Dr Ab­dool-Richards re­port­ed.

She not­ed that COVID-19 cas­es have been ris­ing steadi­ly, go­ing from a sev­en-day rolling av­er­age of around four cas­es per day, to now 32, with­in the past five weeks.


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