The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the Min­istry of Health:

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Sat­ur­day Sep­tem­ber 19, 2020:

Num­ber of sam­ples sub­mit­ted to the Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA), the UWI and oth­er lo­cal sites for test­ing for COVID-19. 28,774

Num­ber of unique pa­tient tests com­plet­ed 25,711

Num­ber of re­peat­ed tests 3,063

Num­ber of sam­ples which have test­ed pos­i­tive at pub­lic and pri­vate fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go 3,739

To­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es 1984

Num­ber of deaths 60

Num­ber of per­sons dis­charged from pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties 829

Num­ber of re­cov­ered com­mu­ni­ty cas­es 866

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing up­date:

· Eighty-eight (88) ad­di­tion­al per­sons have test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID -19.

The eighty-eight (88) pos­i­tive cas­es re­port­ed shows re­sults from sam­ples tak­en dur­ing the pe­ri­od Sep­tem­ber 10th to Sep­tem­ber 18th, 2020. There­fore, this fig­ure is NOT rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the pos­i­tive cas­es over the last 24 hours on­ly.

The eighty-eight (88) new pa­tients will be processed for ad­mis­sion at the dis­cre­tion of the CMOHs.

· Sev­en (7) per­sons have been dis­charged from pub­lic health fa­cil­i­ties

Re­cov­ered com­mu­ni­ty cas­es re­fer to per­sons who were pre­vi­ous­ly COVID-19 pos­i­tive and in self-iso­la­tion at home and sub­se­quent­ly met the dis­charge cri­te­ria and were re­leased from self-iso­la­tion.

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Hos­pi­tal – (86)

Cou­va Hos­pi­tal and Mul­ti-Train­ing Fa­cil­i­ty 50 4 (ICU)7 (HDU)

Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal 25

Ari­ma Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal 11

COVID-19 Pos­i­tive Pa­tients in Step-down / Tran­si­tion Fa­cil­i­ties – 131

Brook­lyn Fa­cil­i­ty, San­gre Grande 0

Ba­lan­dra 0

Tacarigua 0

UWI, Debe 7

UWI, Cana­da hall 52

UWI, Free­dom hall 72

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