Three more COVID-19 pa­tients have been dis­charged from the Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est COVID-19 up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

Mem­bers of the Bar­keep­ers & Op­er­a­tors As­so­ci­a­tion Trinidad & To­ba­go (BOATT) would be protest­ing in front of the Prime Min­is­ter's Of­fice, to­day Thurs­day 9th Ju­ly 2020, and al­so would be host­ing a press con­fer­ence there for 11 a.m.

Caribbean Pre­mier League stake­hold­ers will have to ad­here to strict COVID-19 guide­lines dur­ing the 2020 edi­tion of the event here in Trinidad and To­ba­go next month, Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs Sham­fa Cud­joe said yes­ter­day.

Bar own­ers are now con­cerned about their abil­i­ty to pay gam­ing tax­es fol­low­ing the re­duc­tion of op­er­at­ing hours at their es­tab­lish­ments by the gov­ern­ment.

Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer in the Min­istry of Health Dr Roshan Paras­ram says they are mon­i­tor­ing de­vel­op­ments sur­round­ing the air­borne trans­mis­sion of COVID-19.

A large group of bar own­ers and op­er­a­tors have threat­ened to sue the State over a re­cent move to re­duce their hours of busi­ness­es un­der on­go­ing COVID-19 pub­lic health reg­u­la­tions. 

A group of Trinidad and To­ba­go med­ical stu­dents in Cu­ba are sched­uled to re­turn home to­day on a Caribbean Air­lines repa­tri­a­tion flight.

The po­lice were on Sunday forced to re­verse their de­ci­sion to block sta­tion bail for some of the 61 peo­ple who were ar­rest­ed for breach­ing COVID-19 pub­lic health reg­u­la­tions at a bar in Bel­mont last Fri­day. 

The health pro­to­cols for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion will be sim­i­lar to the pre-COVID-19 guide­lines ac­cord­ing to the Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer, Dr Roshan Paras­ram.

New Na­tion­al Vi­sion po­lit­i­cal leader Fuad Abu Bakr re­mained de­tained in po­lice cus­tody up to late yes­ter­day. 

The Min­istry of Health has des­ig­nat­ed eight lo­ca­tions across the coun­try to con­duct com­mu­ni­ty test­ing for COVID-19.

An­oth­er group of stu­dents study­ing abroad is ex­pect­ed to be giv­en the all-clear to re­turn home.