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Covid counter: 21 deaths and 397 new cases; NCRHA ‘engulfed’ by ‘record breaking wave of patients’
Another 21 deaths, 397 new cases, and an admission from the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) that it is struggling to cope with the demands for Covid-19 tests and healthcare, due to the current surge.
At present, Trinidad and Tobago has 4,814 active cases, while the 394 infections reported today tabulated, according to the Ministry of Health, from ‘samples taken during the period 9 May to 12 May came from 1,110 tests.
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NCRHA CEO Davlin Thomas said his team ‘met in an emergency meeting last night after a record breaking wave of patients requiring Covid-19 testing and care engulfed the system’.
11 dead, 615 more cases reported – TT sinking deeper
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GRIM STATS: This graphic image shows the daily covid19 death rate for May, starting fromo May 1 on the left right up to May 12 at right. GRAPHIC IMAGING BY MELANIE WAITHE -
The nation sank deeper into the grip of the covid19 pandemic on Wednesday as the Ministry of Health reported 11 more people dead from the virus (a new daily high) and a whopping 615 more infected over a previous five-day period from Friday last to Tuesday May 11.
This reflects the worst daily report of both deaths and new infections since records of the pandemic began last year March. It eclipsed the previous grim record, last Sunday of nine deaths reported in a day, plus last Saturday’s hitherto record rate of infections of 402 people.
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Dear Editor: Idi is right, T&T must do more to support overworked nurses in this perilous time
“[…] What many forget, what the mainstream media does not highlight, what the ‘jacket and tie’ crowd in the media briefings does not mention is this: that these front-line workers, exposed daily to the virus, leave to go home to their families exhausted after double-shifts sometimes.
“Let us remember the level of trauma they are experiencing constantly…”
The following guest column from Rae Samuel of the National Workers Union (NWU) supports Trinidad and Tobago Registered Nurses Association (TTRNA) head Idi Stuart’s call for more support for local nurses, as they grapple with the Covid-19 virus: