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Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh reports that about 42 per cent of those who died from or with covid19 had diabetes and 49 per cent had hypertension.

Steady flow of traffic for drive-through jabs in Tobago Cars in the drive-through vaccination line on Saturday at Shaw Park. - DAVID REID Approximately 600 people have been jabbed over three days at the inaugural drive-through vaccination site at Shaw Park Complex carpark in Scarborough. The initiative, which started Saturday, is a public-private sector partnership, and makes it easy for members of the public to stay inside their vehicles and get the vaccines with minimal waiting time. The dr...

TRHA vaccination team to visit homes for the elderly Dr Roxanne Mitchell - THA General manager, Primary Care, Tobago Regional Health Authority, Dr Roxanne Mitchell said the authority will soon begin vaccinating staff and residents at homes for the elderly throughout the island. She said so on Friday at the Division of Health, Wellness and Family Development’s virtual news briefing. “We are in the process of pulling together a mobile team that will go out to homes for the aged as well as t...

TRHA general manager happy with vaccination process 6 Hrs Ago Chief Justice Ivor Archie was one of the people who turned up at the Canaan Health Centre in Tobago to get his covid19 vaccine on Wednesday. - Photo by David Reid General manager of primary care at the Tobago Regional Health Authority (TRHA) Dr Roxanne Mitchell has said the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccination process is encouraging thus far, despite “kinks.” “I am heartened by the response,” Mitchell told Newsday by phone on Wedne...

Tobago vaccines ready 3 Hrs Ago (Left to right) John Chance, messenger/courier of the Tobago Regional Health Authority (TRHA), hands over covid19 vaccines to Kathy Ann Greenidge-Ottley, primary care nursing manager when 3,000 doses were delivered to Tobago on Thursday. Looking on Tracy Davidson Celestine, Secretary of Health, Wellness and Family Development; Ingrid Melville, TRHA chairman; Dr Roxanne Mitchell, acting general manager primary care services; Latoya Mc Kenzie-James, district health...

Tobago to get covid19 vaccines next week Wednesday 17 February 2021 Tobago is expected to receive its first tranche of covid19 vaccines by February 25, according to THA Secretary of Health, Wellness and Family Development Tracy Davidson-Celestine. At the division’s virtual news conference on Tuesday, Davidson-Celestine said, with the vaccine on its way, it brought new hope that the island, and by extension the country, “can work with the rest of the world to beat the covid19 virus.” She s...

TRHA general manager of primary care Dr Roxanne Mitchell. PHOTO COURTESY THA - GENERAL manager of primary care at the Tobago Regional Health Authority (TRHA) Dr Roxanne Mitchell has urged the public not to "sun" and reuse masks. Speaking at the Division of Health, Wellness and Family Development press conference on Tuesday afternoon, she said, “There are a number of people who simply put the mask on the dashboard (of their vehicles) or out in the sun, and then there are others who just spra...