TT covid19 deaths now 105

Another covid19 death has been recorded taking total fatalities to 105.

Speaking at the media health briefing via zoom on Saturday, Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram, informed the country of the latest death. He did not say whether the deceased had pre-existing conditions.

Within the last 24 hours there were 16 new positive cases, seven from a repatriation flight from Barbados. In the last week, there were 300 people repatriated with 35 positive cases.

There are currently three people in ICU and 12 in HDU out of the 71 that are hospitalised. In state quarantine, there are 157 patients while 42 remain in a step-down facility and 1,317 in home isolation.

Since the first positive case in March, TT tested some 50,000 people, Dr Parasram said, with 17,000 from private labs and 32,009 from public health facilities.

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