The Min­istry of Health's COVID-19 Up­date #62 re­ports that the num­ber of con­firmed cas­es has in­creased to 87.

On Mon­day 30th March 2020, at 5 pm In­di­an time (7:30 am Trinida­di­an time), the High Com­mis­sion­er of In­dia to Trinidad and To­ba­go, His Ex­cel­len­cy Mr. Arun Sahu, par­tic­i­pat­ed in a his­toric video con­fer­ence with In­dia’s Prime Min­is­ter Shri Naren­dra Mo­di, to dis­cuss the cur­rent glob­al COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

The man who was gunned down in St James on Mon­day has been iden­ti­fied as 25-year-old An­dre Lums­den.

A 24-year-old man cur­rent­ly is on the run and be­lieved to be in hid­ing, af­ter hav­ing es­caped manda­to­ry quar­an­tine from the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex on Mon­day night, in the dread­ed be­lief that he is pos­i­tive for the COVID-19 virus.

The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port has ad­vised that the De­mer­it Points Sys­tem has been put on hold, in light of new pub­lic health reg­u­la­tions im­ple­ment­ed to re­duce the trans­mis­sion of COVID-19 among the pop­u­la­tion.

The own­er of a bar in Cal­i­for­nia was grant­ed bail in the sum of $1,000 at the Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tion and is due to ap­pear at the Cou­va Mag­is­trates’ Courts to­mor­row, Wednes­day 1st April, 2020.

All vis­its at all of the na­tion's pris­ons have been sus­pend­ed, un­til fur­ther no­tice and with im­me­di­ate ef­fect as of Tues­day 31 March 2020.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter, Stu­art Young, says Gov­ern­ment will be ad­just­ing its new COVID-19 reg­u­la­tions un­der the Pub­lic Health Or­di­nance, to re­duce the num­ber of per­sons in pub­lic spaces not deemed es­sen­tial, from ten to five.

While most Trinida­di­ans heed­ed the COVID-19 re­stric­tions, some Venezue­lans ven­tured out of their homes and were ar­rest­ed by po­lice on Mon­day.

A group of Cuban nurs­es are due to ar­rive in T&T short­ly to as­sist lo­cal health­care pro­fes­sion­als in the fight against the nov­el coro­n­avirus (COVID-19).

The fam­i­lies of pa­tients who die as a re­sult of the COVID-19 virus will not be able to re­tain pos­ses­sion of their corpses.

Ex­act­ly two weeks af­ter a ri­ot and at­tempt­ed jail­break at the Gold­en Grove Re­mand Yard Prison, a sec­ond prison of­fi­cer was at­tacked —stabbed by an in­mate while on du­ty on Mon­day morn­ing.