5-day covid19 deaths half the number in February

There have been 22 covid19 deaths in the first five days of March, with three deaths on Saturday bringing the total to 3,652, since the beginning of the pandemic two years. This is less than half the number of deaths – 50 – recorded in the first five days in February.

The number of new cases reported from samples taken between Monday and Friday was 642. The number of active cases is now 22,093.

The Health Ministry’s covid19 update said the people who died were two elderly men and one elderly woman. It said two of these people had multiple comorbidities, including a mix of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, kidney disease, and benign prostatic hyperplasia. Two people had one comorbidity each and one person had one comorbidity.

Since March 2020, there have been 129,963 cases of covid19, of which 104,218 have recovered.

There are 227 patients in hospital. Of these, there are 79 people at the Couva Hospital and Multi-Training Facility, with seven in the intensive care unit and eight in the high dependency unit. There are 25 people at the Caura Hospital, 31 at the Augustus Long Hospital, six at the St Ann’s Hospital, 42 at the Arima General Hospital, 34 at the St James Medical Complex in Trinidad. In Tobago there are ten at the Scarborough Regional Hospital, Fort King George and none at the Scarborough Regional Hospital, Signal Hill. The Point Fortin Hospital has been decommissioned as a covid19 facility.

There are 49 patients in step-down facilities, with none at the Claxton Bay Correctional Facility, five at UWI, Debe, four at UTT, Valsayn, 23 at the Point Fortin Area Hospital, none at the Port of Spain field hospital, none at the Couva field hospital, five at the Tacarigua facility, and none in Tobago.

There are 53 people in state quarantine facilities, and 21,187 people in home self-isolation. There are 266 recovered community cases and 19 people have been discharged from public health facilities.

The ministry said that 82.7 per cent, or 13,704, of 16,563 patients in the parallel healthcare system were unvaccinated, based on data from July 22 to March 2.

It said of the 3,632 deaths up to February 25, 248 were vaccinated, 2,999 were unvaccinated, and 390 had died before the first cohort of vaccinated people became fully vaccinated on May 24, 2021.

There are 704,001 people who have been fully vaccinated out of 1.4 million people, while 695,999 people have received either a first dose or no dose of a vaccine. The update said 50.3 per cent of the total population had been vaccinated.

The update said the number of people vaccinated with their first dose of a two-dose regime was 686,914.

The number of people vaccinated with their second dose was 648,520, while the number of people vaccinated with the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine was 55,481.

A total of 137,558 people have received an additional primary dose or a booster dose.

The number of people tested in public and private facilities is 637,557, of which 288,396 were done at private facilities and 349,161 were done at public facilities.