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Vaccine equity needed to defeat the pandemic Sunday 21 February 2021 Caura Hospitals infection prevention and control nurse Keisha Prevatt-Gomez is one of the first frontline workers to recieve the covid19 vaccine at the Couva Hospital and Multi-Training Facility last week. - Marvin Hamilton Op-ed published by CNN co-authored by Prime Minister Dr Rowley, chairman of Caricom, and Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. On Thursday, during a virtual press co...

Minister of Health, Terrence Deyalsingh, has clarified that the 2,000 COVID-19 vaccines the nation received to begin immunising persons against the viral illness were don

Bajan backlash MInister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh. - BARBADIANS took to social media on Wednesday evening to properly roast Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh over his erroneous claim that 2,000 doses of the covid19 vaccine were not a donation from Barbados, but was part of a large batch gifted by the Indian Government for all of the Caribbean. Last week Wednesday, Barbados donated 2,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to TT from a batch of 100,000 doses India had donated to Barbados. A ...

13 new covid19 cases, no new deaths There have been no new deaths, with the death toll remaining at 134. The health ministry’s release on Friday said the number of active cases was 272, 15 fewer than Thursday’s figure of 287. Since March, there have been 7,533 positive cases, of which 7,127 have recovered. There are 40 people in hospital, two more than Thursday. There are 25 patients at the Couva Hospital and Multi-Training Facility, with three people in the intensive care unit. There are 1...

13 new covid19 cases, active cases dip below 300 Wednesday 27 January 2021 Thirteen new cases of covid19 have been reported from samples taken between January 24 and 26. Of these, two were recently repatriated. There have been no new deaths, with the death toll remaining at 134. The Health Ministry’s release on Wednesday said the number of active cases was 298, fewer than Tuesday’s figure of 304. This is the first time the active cases have dipped below 300 in weeks. Since March, there have...

Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Health officials have confirmed their first case of the highly infectious UK COVID-19 variant.

The Ministry of Health has confirmed the country’s first case of the highly infectious UK variant of COVID-19 (Variant B117). The strain was found in a repatriated national who recently returned from the UK.”The presence of the variant was confirmed via a gene sequencing study at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, the University of the West Indies, which has been testing COVID-19 positive samples collected since September 2020,” a release from the Ministry stated. According to the Ministry,...

Local PAHO rep: Vaccine distribution schedule by end of January File photo - TT Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) representative Dr Erica Wheeler disclosed that the country will soon have a schedule for the rollout of covid19 vaccines. At the virtual health news conference on Wednesday, Wheeler said, "There was a letter sent out to all the countries participating in the Covax facility, saying that at the end of this month, we will be receiving a schedule for the rollout of vaccines." Reit...

Kindness is social capital - Last Tuesday, a friend explained how a co-worker fell from a tall ladder two days before and severely damaged his hands. Very painful: the broken bones needed quick medical attention. The cost of surgery etc, came to $30,000. But the injured man was very poor, with a rather large family. Not much money. My friend, not quite rich himself, quickly promised to raise the required money to help. And he did, in rake-and-scrape ways. This, I think, is kindness. Of cour...

Minister of Health, Terrence Deyalsingh (centre) poses with healthcare workers at the Couva Medical and Multi-training Facility. Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh visited the Couva Medical and Multi-training Facility today to bring some much-needed Christmas cheer to frontline healthcare workers.  Deyalsingh spent some time with the workers who were tending to COVID-19 patients despite the holiday.  He was accompanied by North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) Chairman Stev...