Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sharon Belmar-George has announced that results for 59 samples have been received and they are all negative. Speaking at a press briefing this morning, the CMO said: “We have received the samples for 59 tests done from the community in our respiratory clinics, and all of the 59 have been negative. So our status of 18 confirmed cases, with all recovered remains to date.”
Belmar-George said that there have been zero ICU hospitalizations for COVID-19, and none of the previous 18 cases have been complicated. She indicated that to date, a total of 786 tests have been conducted between local health authorities and the Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency.
Speaking on the ministry of health’s testing strategy, she stated that that everyone with respiratory signs and symptoms are tested.
“Included in those are persons who die. To ensure we do not miss anyone, we have included in our strategy, from the beginning, to ensure that we test persons who die sudden deaths, deaths due to respiratory, we test all of those to ensure that we have not missed any cases throughout,” the CMO said.
