Nurse Gomes Prevatt gets T&T’s first Covid vaccine, as Deyalsingh vows to ‘control the virus’ Today, amid some fanfare, nurse Keisha Gomes Prevatt became the first person in Trinidad and Tobago to be vaccinated for Covid-19. The vaccination concluded a Ministry of Health press conference that took place at the Couva Hospital and Multi-training Facility. Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh said that the current health measures help us manage the pandemic, but they are not enough to get us back to normal life as we knew it. Photo: Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh. “These physical measures will not take us to that place,” he said. “What will take us to that place is controlling the virus—where we have dominion over the virus—and the best way to do that is by employing a tried, proven, tested, old remedy used in the modern era since 1796.”