Part 10 As of March 9, 2020, Italy has been put on near-total lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Bonnie Khan – a Trinidadian living in Venice, Italy – is recording her life during the lockdown. Monday April 20, developments Total number of people infected: 181, 228 Fatalities: 24,114 Recovered: 48,877 News roundup: The […]Read More
TWENTY-SIX people have now been discharged after testing positive for Covid-19. According to update #123, issued by the Health Ministry on Monday night, 114 people were positive with 1,380 samples being tested. The release noted that there were eight deaths and 26 people being discharged. The four additional people were discharged from the Sangre […]Read More
SURVEILLANCE testing will be ramped up from Monday as 10,000 Covid-19 testing kits from the Pan American Health Organisation’s (PAHO) are expected within the next few weeks. Speaking at the virtual news conference on Monday, Deyalsingh said, “We are going to be ramping up our surveillance testing significantly from next Monday… we got in 1,750 extraction kits which […]Read More
BUYING paint and barbeque pits causes the new restrictions on hardware stores. This according to Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh at a virtual news conference of the Ministry of Health on Monday. He said, “The Minister of National Security and myself, we monitor the situation on an hourly and daily basis. “Some people are ignoring […]Read More
UNITED STATES oil prices crashed to below $5 on Monday, the lowest since 1983. This is because demand has dried up due to the coronavirus pandemic and storage has run out. West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, sunk to a low of $4.04 a barrel on Monday. US storage facilities were now struggling to cope […]Read More
AFTER using obscene language in a video to say that they do not care about the novel coronavirus, 27 people from Sea Lots were held by police. A release from the TTPS stated that the video went viral on Sunday showed breaches of the Public Health Ordinance Regulations. It stated that Commissioner of Police Gary […]Read More
GRENADA has lifted its curfew restrictions due to Covid-19. Health Minister Nicholas Steele said Grenada has contained the spread of Covid-19 in communities throughout the island and there was now need for everyone to continue living “the new normal lifestyles” so that the island can maintain its no new case and no death profile. […]Read More
HARDWARE, electrical and plumbing stores will only be open on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 8 am to 12 noon. According to a release on Sunday from the Ministry of Health, this measure will remain until April 30, 2020. The release stated: “The Honourable Terrence Deyalsingh, Minister of Health, after consultation with the Prime […]Read More
IN a social media post Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Media HD in Barbados Vic Fernandes blames Trinidad and Tobago National Security Minister for abandoning 33 of his countrymen in Barbados. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the TT nationals were quarantined at the Barbados Sugar Cane Club in St Peter since after arriving […]Read More
THE PNM Government does not want to work with the UNC Opposition to help in the fight of the Covid-19 threat. This was the claim by Caroni East MP Dr Tim Gopeesingh in a release on Sunday. He said, “It is clear by the Prime Minister’s many rejections of our calls since January to […]Read More