Pro­fes­sor of Mol­e­c­u­lar Ge­net­ics and Vi­rol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Chris­tine Car­ring­ton at­tend­ed Sat­ur­day's Min­istry of Health COVID-19 up­date and cit­ed a Sri Lankan study that found the Chi­nese-made vac­cine held up well against the Delta virus.

Un­vac­ci­nat­ed Spe­cial Branch po­lice of­fi­cers have been moved from Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes and Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s se­cu­ri­ty de­tails.

Six more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, while an­oth­er 300 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

There have been two ad­di­tion­al deaths from COVID-19 in To­ba­go, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of deaths due to the dis­ease to 35.

A call is be­ing made for peo­ple to arm them­selves with COVID-19 vac­cines be­fore the ar­rival of the Delta vari­ant, which Gov­ern­ment says is in­evitable.

Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram be­lieves it's on­ly a mat­ter of time be­fore T&T gets its first case of the Delta Vari­ant.

Eight more peo­ple have lost their lives to COVID-19, while an­oth­er 181 peo­ple have test­ed pos­i­tive for the dis­ease, ac­cord­ing to the lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health.

Not all per­son­nel in close con­tact with 62-year-old Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes and her moth­er, 92-year-old Phyl­lis Weekes, are vac­ci­nat­ed.

Sec­re­tary for Health Well­ness and Fam­i­ly De­vel­op­ment, Tra­cy David­son Ce­les­tine, was un­able to pro­vide de­tails re­lat­ed to a whop­ping 52 new pos­i­tive COVID-19 cas­es record­ed in To­ba­go in the last 24 hours.

There are 52 new COVID-19 cas­es in To­ba­go. This is the high­est num­ber of cas­es record­ed in a 24-hour pe­ri­od since March 2020.

Gov­ern­ment has made very lit­tle head­way with its goals for in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions in its Roadmap to Re­cov­ery plan. That is the view of trade union­ists and an in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions con­sul­tant and Min­is­ter of Labour Stephen Mc Clashie ad­mits there, has been a set­back in terms of the goals set when the ex­er­cise start­ed a year ago.

There is a re­li­gious say­ing that two are bet­ter than one be­cause if one falls, the oth­er would help him up. This con­cept has been on full dis­play in T&T dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. Even be­fore front­line work­ers in a staff-strapped health sec­tor be­came over­whelmed and burnt out, sev­er­al or­gan­i­sa­tions stepped up to pro­vide re­lief in the form of hot meals, pro­tec­tive gear and var­i­ous in­fra­struc­ture and gen­er­al moral sup­port.