Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Roshan Parasram has all but ruled out transmission of COVID-19 during Carnival 2020, saying that if that had occurred “we would have tens of thousands of cases.” At time of Carnival ( February 24-25) there were less than  50 cases reported in other countries that we knew of and there were just ten in the United States, Parasram said while noting that  several persons were tested coming out of the carnival period “and they were negative.” The first COVID-19 case was reported on March 12^th, Parasram said, also explaining that a large number of  T&T’s positive cases came from the 20,000 nationals returning home. Up to Friday morning there were six COVID-19 deaths and 97 positive cases, out of the 710 that have been tested. In providing a breakdown of the statistics, at a news conference on Friday morning, Parasram said 90 are still in hospital. At the Couva Hospital there are 80 patients  two  of whom are at the Intensive Care Unit, 13 at the High Dependency Unit (HDU) and 65 who are ambulatory which means they are moving around. The Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (TTDF) will be called in to move 17 of the 65 to quarantine in a non-hospital facility where they will be tested and will be released once they test negative for Coronavirus, twice in 24 hours. The CMO was reluctant to say where the patients, who are still contagious, will be moved to because “when we had a case in Tobago those persons received death threats.” “I don’t want to divulge that info,” he insisted. Dr Parasram also advised high risk groups- the elderly – that they should be wearing asks when they go out. “If you think that your personal risk is great then you should wear a mask,” he  said via a virtual news conference.