161 cases, 7 deaths recorded Photo courtesy CDC. FOLLOWING Thursday’s spike of 321 covid19 cases, the number of cases recorded on Friday was 161. Seven covid19 deaths that day, brought the overall toll to 930. The Health Ministry’s covid19 update of Friday said the people who died were three elderly men, two elderly women, one middle-aged man, and one middle-aged woman, all with comorbidities. There are 6,217 active cases. Since March 2020, there have been 34,402 cases of covid19, of which 27,255 have recovered. There are 337 people in hospital, five more than Thursday. Of these, 111 are at the Couva Hospital and Multi-Training Facility, with 21 in the intensive care unit and 17 in the high dependency unit.