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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, all COVID-19 protocols were followed to prevent the strain’s introduction into the population inc...

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." Reiterating that the Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162 vaccine is the first covid19 vaccine that TT will receive th...

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 course, there are all types of kindness, the ultimate one is giving when it hurts, at a sacrifice. That ...

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 Steve De Las, CEO Davlin Thomas and other members of NCRHA Executive Management team.   Deyalsingh co...