April 7, 2020

COVID-19 UPDATE: Many Waiting To Be Discharged

By Newsroom

One of the four more persons tested for the COVID 19 turned out to be positive as the statistics presented on Tuesday morning shows.   A total of 870 persons have been tested with 106 positive, eight deaths ad one discharged. The last update on Monday night showed 866 tested with 105 positives, eight deaths and one discharged. The one person who tested positive is in Tobago, according to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO, Dr Roshan Parasram. But the good news is that there are two batches of the COVID-19 patients who may be discharged in the near future. And that includes the 22 persons who were among the cruise ship passengers who were airlifted from Guadeloupe and who tested negative. Their quarantine period is over and they will be tested again before they are discharged. That is in addition to 17 persons who were decanted from the Couva Hospital and are now at a refurbished convalescence home. They will be tested again.  And another 15 patients will be decanted from Couva after an appropriate place is found for them. There are 26 persons at the Caura Hospital, who are doing well, according to the CMO. At the Couva Hospital there are 70 cases one of whom is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) but not on a ventilator and three others at the High Dependency Unit, (HDU). The CMO, admitted this morning that two health care workers have tested positive for coronavirus one in Trinidad and another in Tobago. He did not give further information when asked whether that person is an employee of the lab at the Port of Spain General Hospital (POSGH) which is featured in a video, that has gone viral, showing the lab being sanitized. “The lab at the POSGH does no COVID-19 testing, but I would not go go further with that query because of patient confidentiality,”  Dr Parasram said.
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