The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter has con­firmed that Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley re­ceived his sec­ond dose of the Sinopharm vac­cine at the Scar­bor­ough Health Cen­tre yes­ter­day.

De­spite re­ports in the USA that soon, on­ly ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed trav­ellers will be al­lowed in­to the coun­try, to­day their em­bassy here is say­ing that no def­i­nite de­ci­sion has been made.

Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC), Michael An­nisette, is main­tain­ing that it is every in­di­vid­ual’s right to choose to be vac­ci­nat­ed or not.

The ad­min­is­tra­tion of sec­ond dos­es of COVID-19 vac­cines for those who would have got their first dos­es through the Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion vac­ci­na­tion ini­tia­tive, is sched­uled for Sun­day 8th Au­gust.

Amid the COVID-19 cri­sis, Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean re­ceived in 2020 the low­est amount of For­eign Di­rect In­vest­ment in a decade, ECLAC says.

The Po­lice Ser­vice has stepped up its pa­trols to en­sure com­pli­ance with the COVID-19 Reg­u­la­tions and the State of Emer­gency cur­few hours, re­sult­ing in an in­creas­ing num­ber of ar­rests for cur­few breach­es, as well as breach­es of the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions.

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA) says it has ruled out us­ing the new­ly built Rox­bor­ough Hos­pi­tal to in­crease COVID-19 In­ten­sive Care Unit treat­ment in To­ba­go.

Ma­jor US me­dia pub­lish­er, Reuters, is re­port­ing that the Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion is work­ing on a plan to re­quire near­ly all for­eign vis­i­tors to the Unit­ed States to be ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed against COVID-19.

The TTPS is re­new­ing its call to cit­i­zens to ad­here to the Emer­gency Pow­ers and Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions and wel­comes in­for­ma­tion on pos­si­ble breach­es, fol­low­ing the ar­rest of nine more peo­ple over the past 24 hours for breach­ing the cur­few stip­u­lat­ed un­der the cur­rent Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions.

This coun­try has lost an­oth­er eight lives to COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health is­sued to­day, Mon­day 2nd Au­gust 2021.

“With im­me­di­ate ef­fect, we in­tend to in­ten­si­fy our polic­ing three hours be­fore the start of the cur­few.”

Twen­ty-five per­sons were ar­rest­ed for breach of the cur­few and the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions, dur­ing an Op­er­a­tion Strike Back 3 ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in El So­cor­ro, on Sun­day night.