Three deaths owing to covid19 were reported on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 3,922. The number of new cases of covid19 reported from samples taken between Monday and Wednesday was 397.
The Health Ministry’s covid19 update said the people who died were three middle-aged women. It said examples of the comorbidities present were diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, neurological disease, and cancer. It said two people had multiple comorbidities, and one person had a single comorbidity.
Since March 2020, there have been 162,187 cases of covid19, of which 149,355 have recovered. The total number of active cases is 8,910.
There are 184 patients in hospital. Of these, there are 46 people at the Couva Hospital and Multi-Training Facility, with four in the intensive care unit and six in the high dependency unit. There are 33 people at the Caura Hospital, 44 at the Augustus Long Hospital, ten at the St Ann’s Hospital, 12 at the Arima General Hospital, eight at the Point Fortin Area Hospital, 20 at the St James Medical Complex, 11 at the Scarborough Regional Hospital, Fort King George and none at the Scarborough Regional Hospital, Signal Hill.
There are no patients in step-down facilities.
There are ten people in state quarantine facilities, and 8,716 people in home self-isolation. There are 296 recovered community cases and nine people have been discharged from public health facilities.
The ministry said that 81.0 per cent or 15,292 of 18,868 patients in the parallel healthcare system were unvaccinated, based on data from July 22, 2021 to June 1, 2022.
It said of the 3,919 deaths up to May 25, 2022, 281 were vaccinated, 3,248 were unvaccinated, and 390 had died before the first cohort of vaccinated people became fully vaccinated on May 24, 2021.
There are 712,666 people who have been fully vaccinated out of a total of 1.4 million people, while 687,334 people have received either a first dose or no dose of a vaccine. The update said 50.9 per cent of the total population had been vaccinated.
The update said the total number of people vaccinated with their first dose of a two-dose regime was 692,607.
The number of people vaccinated with their second dose was 655,521, while the number of people vaccinated with the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine was 57,145.
A total of 159,283 people have received an additional primary dose or a booster dose.
The number of people tested in both public and private facilities is 750,465, of which 320,902 were done at private facilities and 429,563 were done at public facilities.
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