Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­licHealth Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19. 27,006

The Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Gary Grif­fith, has re-stat­ed that the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) will not ar­rest cit­i­zens il­le­gal­ly—a clear breach of their Con­sti­tu­tion­al rights—and re­mains com­mit­ted to up­hold­ing the law.

An el­der­ly man and an el­der­ly woman with pre-ex­ist­ing health con­di­tions, are the lat­est vic­tims of COVID-19, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health’s lat­est up­date.

Leader of the Op­po­si­tion, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar SC MP, is re­it­er­at­ing her call for Gov­ern­ment to es­tab­lish “a COVID-19 In­tel­li­gence Unit where all Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty and Health agen­cies will com­mu­ni­cate and ex­e­cute strate­gic plans and op­er­a­tions in uni­son and in re­al time”.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Sat­ur­day 12th Sep­tem­ber, 2020:

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 26,634

The Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Fyz­abad, is urg­ing Gov­ern­ment to im­prove the qual­i­ty of its re­sponse in the fight against COVID-19.

The Min­istry of Health has record­ed five more COVID deaths bring­ing to­day’s to­tal to sev­en. The to­tal num­ber of COVID deaths now stands at 50.

Ac­cord­ing to the up­date from the Min­istry of Health for this morn­ing, the pa­tients who died were an el­der­ly fe­male with co-mor­bidi­ties and an adult male.

Vague COVID-19 Reg­u­la­tions are re­sult­ing in so­ci­etal dis­cord be­cause of the per­cep­tion that the po­lice ser­vice is se­lec­tive­ly en­forc­ing them, ar­gues Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly.

There has been yet an­oth­er death from COVID-19 record­ed by the Min­istry of Health, and the per­son is yet an­oth­er el­der­ly male with pre-ex­ist­ing health con­di­tions.

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19 25,995