There was a slight drop in the num­ber of new in­fec­tions of COVID-19 over the past week, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry of Health.

Some 226 new cas­es were re­port­ed be­tween Feb­ru­ary 15 and 21, as op­posed to 312 cas­es the pre­vi­ous week (Feb­ru­ary 8-14). At present, the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try is 35, down from 135 the week be­fore.

Few­er deaths were record­ed as well. There were three deaths—three male pa­tients (one el­der­ly, one mid­dle-aged, and one whose age is un­known)—dur­ing 15-21 Feb­ru­ary. These lat­est deaths have moved the na­tion­al death toll to 4,339 lives lost.  The pre­vi­ous week, five deaths were record­ed.

As of Tues­day, 39 COVID-19 pa­tients are hos­pi­talised.  Mean­while, two peo­ple are in home self-iso­la­tion.  Some 20 peo­ple were dis­charged from pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties, and 209 com­mu­ni­ty cas­es have been cer­ti­fied as re­cov­ered.

The to­tal num­ber of peo­ple in Trinidad and To­ba­go who have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19—from Thurs­day 12 March 2020 to Tues­day 21 Feb­ru­ary 2023—is 188,737.

Cur­rent­ly, some 718,528 peo­ple in the coun­try—51.3 per cent of the pop­u­la­tion—are ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed, hav­ing com­plet­ed ei­ther a one-dose or two-dos­es reg­i­men of a COVID-19 vac­cine.  The Min­istry re­minds the pub­lic that a per­son is con­sid­ered to be ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed two weeks af­ter re­ceiv­ing the fi­nal rec­om­mend­ed dose(s) of a vac­cine or vac­cine com­bi­na­tion ap­proved by the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WHO).

And some 174,375 peo­ple have re­ceived their boost­er dos­es of a COVID-19 vac­cine, as of Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 21, the Min­istry’s up­date re­ports.  Boost­er dos­es are ad­di­tion­al pri­ma­ry dos­es and boost­er dos­es of the COVID-19 vac­cine.