RISHARD KHAN
rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

Over the last three months, 14 ba­bies un­der one-year-old con­tract­ed COVID-19, 11 of whom were younger than three months old. The star­tling rev­e­la­tion came from the Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh dur­ing Wednes­day's vir­tu­al press con­fer­ence.

He said the ba­bies were in­fect­ed by their par­ents who were not vac­ci­nat­ed.

"These tod­dlers are not go­ing out to work, they are not go­ing here, they are not go­ing there. The virus is ba­si­cal­ly com­ing home and meet­ing them and send­ing them in­to the hos­pi­tal," he said.

"On ex­am­i­na­tion, 50 per cent of the par­ents are in fact COVID pos­i­tive and we don't have the hard num­ber yet but the vast ma­jor­i­ty [of par­ents]—is what we have been ex­plain­ing to the coun­try—un­vac­ci­nat­ed."

To date, four chil­dren lo­cal­ly have lost their lives to COVID-19.