Paula Lindo Tuesday 5 May 2020 CMO Dr Roshan Parasram has predicted a mix of testing and quarantine for people entering TT when the country’s borders are re-opened. He said the opening of the borders would have to be done on a phased basis and measures would have to be put in place to safeguard against … Continue reading
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Ministry: Covid19 plus hurricane season could challenge health care (May 5, 2020)
Paula Lindo Tuesday 5 May 2020 WITH the covid19 pandemic set to stretch into the middle and end of this year, health ministry chief technical co-ordinator for disaster preparedness Patti-Ann Williams says TT’s health care system – already coping with the pandemic – is set to face several further potential challenges with the hurricane season fast … Continue reading
Covid19 protective measures for border reopening (May 4, 2020)
Paula Lindo Monday 4 May 2020 CMO Dr Roshan Parasram said whenever borders are reopened, this will have to be done on a phased basis, and measures will have to be put in place to safeguard against covid19 re-entering the country. He said phases of reopening may include nationals vs non-nationals, regions and countries, depending on … Continue reading
Low numbers presenting for community testing (May 4, 2020)
Paula Lindo Monday 4 May 2020 CMO Dr Roshan Parasram said community testing is taking place on people who present with flu-like symptoms at health centres, emergency departments and in the community in the normal way. He said the numbers of people coming into the healthcare system with possible symptoms has dropped drastically in the last … Continue reading
Health Ministry preparing for natural disaster management during covid19 (May 4, 2020)
Paula Lindo Monday 4 May 2020 The Ministry of Health’s chief technical co-ordinator of disaster preparedness, Patti-Ann Williams, said TT faces several potential challenges with the impending rainy and hurricane season during the covid19 pandemic. She said the hurricane season is forecast to have eight hurricanes, with four of these being Category Three or higher. Williams … Continue reading
Poet wins top OCM Bocas prize (May 3, 2020)
Paula Lindo Sunday 3 May 2020 The winner of the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is Trinidadian-born, British Virgin Islands-resident Richard Georges. His poetry collection Epiphaneia presents readers with the aftermath of catastrophic Hurricane Irma, which devastated the islands in 2017. In a media release, the Bocas Literary Festival said the book is the … Continue reading
WHO asks UWI to take part in covid19 drug trials (May 1, 2020)
Paula Lindo Friday 1 May 2020 UWI has been approached by the World Health Organization (WHO) to do “solidarity trials” as part of its contribution to the regional effort to deal with the covid19 pandemic. The protocols of these studies are being reviewed by the ethics committees of UWI and the Ministry of Health, which will … Continue reading
70 TT citizens return home from Suriname (May 1, 2020)
Paula Lindo Friday 1 May 2020 Seventy TT citizens who were stranded in Suriname returned home this morning and were quickly taken away under police escort to begin two weeks of mandatory quarantine. Their charter flight landed at Piarco Airport at 10.23 am. The group was met by healthcare personnel and a fleet of PTSC buses. … Continue reading
Caribbean countries urged: ‘Take care of people living with HIV’ (April 30, 2020)
Paula Lindo Thursday 30 April 2020 Caribbean countries should ensure that people living with HIV have reliable access to treatment, healthcare and human rights-based social support services during the covid19 pandemic. The call is being made by the Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Pan Caribbean Partnership against … Continue reading
Virologist: Children can spread covid19 (April 30, 2020)
Paula Lindo Thursday 30 April 2020 STUDIES have shown that while young people and children are less likely to experience severe manifestations of covid19, they get a similar viral load to adults and can therefore spread the virus just as quickly as adults. Professor of molecular genetics and virology Dr Christine Carrington said it was therefore … Continue reading
