By Sue-Ann Wayow

THE Citizens Union of Trinidad & Tobago (CUTT) is calling on the government to provide critical information on the arrival of the Delta variant, especially as it relates to all other passengers who arrived on that same flight.

CUTT’s head Phillip Edward Alexander asked, “Have they all been quarantined including flight crew and flight attendants?”

In a press release on Thursday, he also asked, “If not, how does the government justify releasing what could amount to Delta super-spreaders into the community whether vaccinated or not, especially if this variant is as contagious as the government says it believes?”

If total quarantining was not enforced, the relevant authorities would have set off a “Covid time bomb” Alexander said.

On Wednesday, the Ministry of Health announced that Trinidad and Tobago had two cases of the feared variant of the Covid-19 virus. The two cases were two returning nationals.

Alexander stated that every person on that flight should be quarantined and if they were not, it would be “an act of criminal irresponsibility on the part of the authorities.”

He added, “Depending on the response, we the people of Trinidad and Tobago may have to evaluate if this government can be trusted to act in the best interest of the country and its citizens where managing all that this pandemic entails is concerned.”