There are actually 114 persons who, according to the statistics from the Ministry of Health, have tested positive for COVID-19 in Trinidad and Tobago. That number does not represent any repeats or double testing.

However, of the 1357 samples that have been sent for testing, just about 1051 is the number of people tested. The rest are samples from persons who had to be double tested, according to the Minister of Health at a news conference on Monday morning.

At least 715 persons were identified in the first wave of contract tracing all of whom are being monitored.

‘Not all contacts live geographically close to the contact case,” Dr Avery Hinds, the  Technical  Director of the Epidemiology at the Ministry of Health said at a news conference on Monday morning. He noted that aggressive contact tracing coupled with quarantine and self-isolation, in some instances, as well as social distancing, has led to only sporadic cases of COVID-19 being discovered in Trinidad and Tobago.

Surveillance testing at one dedicated health centre in each of the nine counties in Trinidad and Tobago began last Tuesday and will be ramped up by next week.