Peo­ple who work shifts ap­pear to be sig­nif­i­cant­ly more like­ly to end up in hos­pi­tal with COVID-19, than peo­ple who have reg­u­lar work pat­terns.

Di­ag­nosed with autism spec­trum dis­or­der, 16-year-old Rahul Nanan has made strides over the past decade achiev­ing some lev­el of in­de­pen­dence de­spite his dis­abil­i­ties.

Pres­i­dent of the San Fer­nan­do Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion Daphne Bartlett is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to re­open the econ­o­my quick­ly to pre­vent an “eco­nom­ic col­lapse.”

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh has warned that coun­ter­feit vac­cines are in cir­cu­la­tion across Latin Amer­i­ca and oth­er places fur­ther afield, and he is urg­ing lo­cals to en­sure they on­ly ac­cess au­then­tic COVID-19 vac­cines through the na­tion­al im­mu­ni­sa­tion pro­gramme cur­rent­ly un­der­way by the Min­istry of Health (MOH).

The CO­V­AX Fa­cil­i­ty is still stand­ing be­hind the As­traZeneca (AZ) vac­cine even in the face of a mul­ti-coun­try sus­pen­sion over con­cern of blood clots. To date, some 18 coun­tries have sus­pend­ed the use of the As­traZeneca vac­cine over con­cerns of blood clots.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young who has been vac­ci­nat­ed prefers to wait for the re­sults of the au­top­sy be­fore he com­ments on the cause of death of Franklin Khan who held the port­fo­lio of the Min­is­ter of En­er­gy at the time of his death yes­ter­day.

A re­port in­to the death of 60-year-old Ijaz "EG" Han­iff has been sub­mit­ted to the Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram and sent to the South­west Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (SWRHA).

Cu­mu­to MP Dr Rai Rag­bir has called on mem­bers of the pub­lic to trust and take the COVID-19 vac­cine. Rag­bir got the jab at the St Joseph Health Cen­tre on Sat­ur­day. He said "Fi­nal­ly, thank God I have got­ten the COVID-19 vac­cine. There is al­ways some anx­i­ety about a new vac­cine and it is un­der­stand­able. But the vac­cine process has gone through rig­or­ous sci­en­tif­ic stan­dards of safe­ty, ef­fec­tive­ness, man­u­fac­tur­ing qual­i­ty. Tens of thou­sands of per­sons have been part of the tri­al. The WHO and oth­er sci­en­tif­ic or­gan­i­sa­tions agree to its us­age.

The lat­est up­date from the Min­istry of Health is con­firm­ing 64 new pos­i­tive cas­es of COVID-19—one of whom is a re­cent­ly repa­tri­at­ed per­son—bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try to 712 pa­tients.

Even as the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WHO) con­tin­ues to in­ves­ti­gate if re­cent blood clot­ting in­ci­dents in pa­tients from cer­tain coun­tries in the Eu­ro­pean Union (EU) was a di­rect cause of the As­traZeneca vac­cine, lo­cal health of­fi­cials have as­sured T&T can go ahead with rolling out this vac­cine to its pop­u­la­tion.

In­di­an High Com­mis­sion­er Arun Ku­mar Sahu on Fri­day re­fused to ac­knowl­edge ques­tions about the sta­tus of the vac­cines from In­dia or the let­ters from both Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar about the same.

Eleven Venezue­lans have been ar­rest­ed and charged for fail­ure to re­port to an im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cer at a Port of En­try and breach of the Pub­lic Health Or­di­nance Reg­u­la­tions.