As 21 new pos­i­tive COVID-19 cas­es were record­ed by the Min­istry of Health yes­ter­day, of­fi­cials of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) have an­nounced that two em­ploy­ees at­tached to its North­ern Area were di­ag­nosed with the virus on March 29 and April 2 re­spec­tive­ly.

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, T&TEC said all pro­to­cols and con­tact trac­ing mea­sures were im­me­di­ate­ly em­ployed and the af­fect­ed em­ploy­ees who were part of the con­tact trac­ing process were asked to self-iso­late while a thor­ough sani­ti­sa­tion of the work­spaces was done.

T&TEC of­fi­cials al­so met with mem­bers of the Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union (OW­TU) on Tues­day to ap­prise them of the sit­u­a­tion, fol­low­ing which the union made cer­tain rec­om­men­da­tions that are now re­ceiv­ing man­age­ment’s at­ten­tion.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s Fi­nance Branch, which is lo­cat­ed at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing on Sackville Street, Port-of-Spain, al­so had to be shut down af­ter a mem­ber of staff test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease.

While the of­fices were sani­tised on April 6, a de­ci­sion was al­so tak­en to close the Branch. The pub­lic is thus be­ing ad­vised that no trans­ac­tions will take place at the branch un­til next week. The branch will re­main closed un­til April 12.