PM in isolation after covid19 diagnosis
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley. -
Three days after assuring citizens in his Easter message that the country will overcome the socio-economic challenges triggered by covid19, the Prime Minister has himself contracted the virus and is being treated at an undisclosed site in Tobago.
A statement on Dr Rowley’s Facebook page on Tuesday said he tested positive for covid19 and is in isolation.
It said Rowley, who was in Tobago during the Easter weekend, began experiencing flu-like symptoms on Monday and was subsequently tested for covid19.
Rowley, 72, was due to be given a first dose of the Oxford Astra-Zeneca vaccine at 2.30pm on Tuesday at the Scarborough Health Centre.
Over 1,000 pre-registered as vaccinations begin in Tobago
Tracy Davidson-Celestine -
More than 1000 Tobagonians have pre-registered to receive the first doses of 3,000 covid19 vaccines on Tuesday, according to THA Secretary of Health, Wellness and Family Development Tracy Davidson-Celestine.
Last Wednesday, TT received 33,600 doses of AztraZeneca vaccines in the first tranche from the World Health Organization’s Covax facility. Of that number, Tobago got 3,000 doses on Thursday, which is expected to vaccinate an estimated 1,500 people. Among those to be vaccinated are essential or frontline workers along with people with chronic illnesses.
Speaking with Newsday on Monday, Davidson-Celestine said all systems were in place for the roll-out which was expected to begin on Tuesday at the Scarborough and Canaan health centres.
Tobago vaccines ready
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(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 visitor; Edwina King-Ince, surveillance nurse, Office of the County Medical Officer of Health. - Photo courtesy Tobago House of Assembly.
Tobago is expected to begin its public vaccination drive on Tuesday, having received its first shipment of covid19 vaccines from the Covax facility.
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2 ferry passengers at risk for covid19 sent back to Trinidad
Galleons Passage, the inter-island ferry, docked in Port of Spain. - Photo by Vidya Thurab
The two people who arrived in Tobago on board the TT Spirit on Friday morning but were sent back to Trinidad on the Galleons Passage later that day did not break quarantine as was previously reported.
Secretary of Health, Wellness and Family Development Tracy Davidson-Celestine gave this assurance in a statement issued by the division’s communications unit on Saturday.
“I want to be clear. The two persons who were returned to Trinidad on the Galleon’s Passage did not break quarantine,” she was quoted as saying.