The Event "de Par­ty done: free COVID-19 anti­gen test­ing tak­ing place on the Bri­an Lara Prom­e­nade un­til 5 pm to­day.

There was a slight drop in the num­ber of new in­fec­tions of COVID-19 over the past week, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est ad­vi­so­ry from the Min­istry of Health.

BEI­JING (AP) — Chi­na says more than 200 mil­lion of its cit­i­zens have been di­ag­nosed and treat­ed for COVID-19 since it lift­ed strict con­tain­ment mea­sures be­gin­ning in No­vem­ber.

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden in­formed Con­gress on Mon­day that he will end the twin na­tion­al emer­gen­cies for ad­dress­ing COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world has re­turned clos­er to nor­mal­cy near­ly three years af­ter they were first de­clared.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (Ag.), Er­la Christo­pher, has dis­pelled ru­mours pur­port­ed via a so­cial me­dia post, which state there is a COVID-19 scare at the Po­lice Acad­e­my.

Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rance Deyals­ingh is thank­ing the pub­lic for their ini­tial re­sponse to the COVID-19 and In­fluen­za vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve that be­gan on Jan­u­ary 6.

While COVID-19 cas­es are in­creas­ing, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion does not war­rant post­pon­ing or can­celling Car­ni­val 2023. He how­ev­er said the sit­u­a­tion does in fact re­quire in­creased per­son­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.

A se­nior of­fi­cial at the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO) has con­firmed that a spe­cial com­mit­tee will meet on Fri­day 27 Jan­u­ary 2023, to de­ter­mine whether the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic still rep­re­sents a glob­al emer­gency.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent, Her Ex­cel­len­cy has since been placed in­to quar­an­tine as a pre­cau­tion.

"The good news is Her Ex­cel­len­cy's moth­er who was vac­ci­nat­ed and boost­ed, ex­pe­ri­enced on­ly mild symp­toms and is now symp­tom-free, but still be­ing mon­i­tored care­ful­ly."

Over the past five weeks, To­ba­go has not re­port­ed a sin­gle death from COVID-19, with the is­land’s death toll from the dis­ease hold­ing steady at 287, as at Sat­ur­day, De­cem­ber 17.

The Min­istry of Health has changed the pro­to­cols gov­ern­ing the iso­la­tion of COVID-19-pos­i­tive peo­ple to now in­clude an op­tion for re­lease up­on re­ceipt of a neg­a­tive test re­sult.