Over the past five weeks, To­ba­go has not re­port­ed a sin­gle death from COVID-19, with the is­land’s death toll from the dis­ease hold­ing steady at 287, as at Sat­ur­day, De­cem­ber 17.

That’s ac­cord­ing to the lat­est week­ly up­date from the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and So­cial Pro­tec­tion, in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od Sun­day 11 to Sat­ur­day 17 De­cem­ber 2022.

The most re­cent COVID-19-re­lat­ed death was re­port­ed dur­ing the week of 6-12 No­vem­ber 2022. At that time, the de­ceased was said to be an un­vac­ci­nat­ed per­son.  Pri­or to that death be­ing re­port­ed, there had been no COVID-19 re­lat­ed deaths for three weeks.

The THA Health Di­vi­sion re­port notes five more peo­ple test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 in To­ba­go, last week. The num­ber of ac­tive in­fec­tions was five, as at Sat­ur­day, De­cem­ber 17. This rep­re­sents slight drop from the pre­vi­ous week (De­cem­ber 4-10, 2022), at which time there were four ac­tive cas­es.

In ad­di­tion, the Health Di­vi­sion con­firms that one pa­tient—un­vac­ci­nat­ed against COVID-19—was hos­pi­talised last week in To­ba­go.

The To­ba­go COVID-19 up­date al­so re­ports that pa­tients con­tin­ue to sur­vive the dis­ease as four peo­ple were cer­ti­fied as re­cov­ered from COVID-19 dur­ing the pe­ri­od De­cem­ber 11-17, 2022.

A to­tal of 10,995 in To­ba­go have re­cov­ered from COVID-19 since March 2020—up from 10,991 the pre­vi­ous week.