COVID-19 Death Count Climbs to Five
Another death, simply identified as an “elderly male”, brought the Trinidad and Tobago COVID-19 death count to five on Wednesday morning.
There are now 89 persons who have tested positive for the coronavirus based on the criteria established by the Caribbean who is a primary contact. Tuesday night, a woman, also described as “elderly” in the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) Press Release was also said to have “pre-existing medical conditions.”
Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Roshan Parasram provided the following statistics at a news conference on Wednesday morning:
There are Three (3) patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) two at Couva and one at the Scarborough General Hospital.
There are 75 patients at the Couva Hospital 14 of whom are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU). Thirteen of them are, however, in a stable condition.
Fifty nine of the patients at Couva show no symptoms now but they will remain in quarantine for seven days post symptoms after which they will be swabbed,twice in one hour, to ensure they are negative.
Patients who are doing well will be decanted from Couva which will be used for only medium and high level cases.
The University of the West Indies (UWI) will liase with the Couva Hospital to provide mental health services and provide a Hotline for psychological support.
Care Guidelines for self isolation at home will be published by the MOH.
Meanwhile:
Just under half of the number of reported cases are outside of the batch of cruise ship passengers who were airlifted from Guadeloupe and quarantined at Camp Balandra.
In total 49 out of the 68 in that group tested positive for COVID-19. Forty, therefore, would have been infected under different circumstances.
These are the statistics provided by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday morning:
The Ministry further broke down the statistics to say that there were 46 positive cases from the group of 68 nationals who returned from the cruise together and three positive cases from the group of nationals who returned from the same cruise separately from the other 68 nationals.
Another death, simply identified as an “elderly male”, brought the Trinidad and Tobago COVID-19 death count to five on Wednesday morning.
There are now 89 persons who have tested positive for the coronavirus based on the criteria established by the Caribbean who is a primary contact. Tuesday night, a woman, also described as “elderly” in the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) Press Release was also said to have “pre-existing medical conditions.”
Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Roshan Parasram provided the following statistics at a news conference on Wednesday morning:
There are Three (3) patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) two at Couva and one at the Scarborough General Hospital.
There are 75 patients at the Couva Hospital 14 of whom are in the High Dependency Unit (HDU). Thirteen of them are, however, in a stable condition.
Fifty nine of the patients at Couva show no symptoms now but they will remain in quarantine for seven days post symptoms after which they will be swabbed,twice in one hour, to ensure they are negative.
Patients who are doing well will be decanted from Couva which will be used for only medium and high level cases.
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Just under half of the number of reported cases are outside of the batch of cruise ship passengers who were airlifted from Guadeloupe and quarantined at Camp Balandra.
In total 49 out of the 68 in that group tested positive for COVID-19. Forty, therefore, would have been infected under different circumstances.
These are the statistics provided by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday morning:
The Ministry further broke down the statistics to say that there were 46 positive cases from the group of 68 nationals who returned from the cruise together and three positive cases from the group of nationals who returned from the same cruise separately from the other 68 nationals.