COVID-19 in Trinidad & Tobago (Local Updates & Discussions Only)

[redmanjp]

Suggestion for the OP or mods- include the vaccination numbers in thread title.

[adnj]

It will continue to be high or get higher. It will only go down if ppl abide by the mask protocols, even of it was exacerbated by the Easter activities.

This is because even if each person only infect 1 other person it will stay at that level, to bring it back down it has to be under 1.

Mask usage has decreased.

[paid_influencer]

mask usage definitely dropped. About 80% of people wearing chin covers full-time.

You tell them pull it up and they ignore you or watch you hard hard now. Old people especially doh care one tail anymore about masks.

[DMan7]

[K74T]

Widdyfok

[DMan7]

Those are just remaining in the system, it will be back below 40 on Monday.

[Dohplaydat]

Those are just remaining in the system, it will be back below 40 on Monday.

Yea that's NOT how this works. Viruses don't spread and then just stop spreading.

The Easter spike leads to an overall increase in new cases afterwards.

Imagine 500 got infected after Easter. Then each of those 500 infect 1.2 persons on average, so their cases will come in next week as a rise again. They too might infect 1.2 persons and so on.

The lockdown attempts to reduce that 1.2 to under 1.

Comprende?

[hover11]

Gotta love your optimism, it's really unrelenting

Those are just remaining in the system, it will be back below 40 on Monday.

[DMan7]

Gotta love your optimism, it's really unrelenting

Those are just remaining in the system, it will be back below 40 on Monday.

Well what else do we have in these times?

[widdyphuck]

Widdyfok

That's my name.

[ST Auto]

3 deaths as well... hmm

[paid_influencer]

Those are just remaining in the system, it will be back below 40 on Monday.

yup, and Monday everyone will breathe a sign of relief and the crisis averted.

[adnj]

Those are just remaining in the system, it will be back below 40 on Monday.

Yea that's NOT how this works. Viruses don't spread and then just stop spreading.

The Easter spike leads to an overall increase in new cases afterwards.

Imagine 500 got infected after Easter. Then each of those 500 infect 1.2 persons on average, so their cases will come in next week as a rise again. They too might infect 1.2 persons and so on.

The lockdown attempts to reduce that 1.2 to under 1.

Comprende?

Soldier on brother.

You're still explaining the mechanism of infection. They know. They just don't want to know.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

1 month ago we were under 88 active cases.
Now we’re at 847

[Dohplaydat]

1 month ago we were under 88 active cases.
Now we’re at 847

5 weeks ago we had 4 hospitalisations, by tomorrow it might be 100.

[aaron17]

All this from easter?

[paid_influencer]

numbers being manipulated. cases were never as low as they told us.

they kept numbers low when they had no vaccines. Now that vaccines here, look a convenient spike to drive people into taking the vaccine.

[aaron17]

numbers being manipulated. cases were never as low as they told us.

they kept numbers low when they had no vaccines. Now that vaccines here, look a convenient spike to drive people into taking the vaccine.

Convenience

[BUG]

numbers being manipulated. cases were never as low as they told us.

they kept numbers low when they had no vaccines. Now that vaccines here, look a convenient spike to drive people into taking the vaccine.

It must be exhausting to live a life where anything that doesnt confirm your bias must be a grand conspiracy. The education system has clearly failed many in this thread.

[elec2020]

full lockdowns are a coming

[Dohplaydat]

full lockdowns are a coming

Damn and I now getting back my gym body, cyah even show it off anywhere now.

[elec2020]

i bought some gym equipment from sports and games. that is keeping me together. cause even after the vaccine... restrictions not going to be lifted just so. and we vaccinating really slowly. so i feel maybe 2023 all restrictions will be lifted

[De Dragon]

All this from easter?

Thanks to JUHN "Tobago iz de place tuh be" Scarfy

[paid_influencer]

numbers being manipulated. cases were never as low as they told us.

they kept numbers low when they had no vaccines. Now that vaccines here, look a convenient spike to drive people into taking the vaccine.

It must be exhausting to live a life where anything that doesnt confirm your bias must be a grand conspiracy. The education system has clearly failed many in this thread.

You know, you are right. I retract my statement and humbly apologize to everyone.

[aaron17]

numbers being manipulated. cases were never as low as they told us.

they kept numbers low when they had no vaccines. Now that vaccines here, look a convenient spike to drive people into taking the vaccine.

It must be exhausting to live a life where anything that doesnt confirm your bias must be a grand conspiracy. The education system has clearly failed many in this thread.

You know, you are right. I retract my statement and humbly apologize to everyone.

Rel confusion here ...sarcasm etc

[paid_influencer]

Nah he's right. I have no evidence the numbers are being manipulated.

[2WNBoost]

WHO warns of global surge in COVID cases, deaths as world approaches 'highest rate of infection'
The WHO said the global infection rate was approaching the highest so far.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/warns-global-surge-covid-cases-deaths-world-approaches/story?id=77090038

LONDON -- The pandemic is reaching deadly new heights across the world, the WHO warned this week, even as the focus in some countries, including the U.S., has shifted toward how quickly to ease restrictions as vaccination figures eke upward.

"Around the world, cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying rates," WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference on Friday. "Globally, the number of new cases per week has nearly doubled over the past two months. This is approaching the highest rate of infection that we have seen so far during the pandemic. Some countries that had previously avoided widespread transmission are now seeing steep increases in infections."

The bulk of new infections have been seen in Brazil and India, the second- and third-worst-affected countries. Earlier this week, the nongovernmental organization Doctors Without Borders warned that Brazil's coronavirus response had driven the country into a "humanitarian catastrophe." The country failed to impose an effective, centralized response, and had accounted for more than a quarter of the world's COVID-19 deaths through last week, the group said.

Some experts have warned that social-distancing recommendations have gone ignored in India, and this week the government made a desperate plea for citizens to wear masks.

"If we, all of us, start wearing masks starting today or tomorrow, we will see an immediate dip in this," Vinod Kumar Paul, a member of the government's planning commission, said at a press briefing on April 13. "We should not crowd. We must maintain social distancing and hygiene, then this virus will definitely stop. And we have repeatedly said wearing a mask is an effective social vaccine, which we should start today."

Of the 1,185 daily deaths reported in India in the 24 hours preceding Friday, around a third were in the state of Maharashtra, home to Mumbai, which was placed under a lockdown this week.

Even so, the holy festival of Kumbh Mela has seen millions of Indians travel throughout the country, with footage showing devotees bathing in the Ganges with no respect for social distancing, and hundreds of positive cases have been associated with the festival, according to the BBC. In recent weeks, the country has reported well over 100,000 new confirmed cases on a daily basis.

With the country struggling to contain the spread of coronavirus, vaccine exports have been suspended at the country's Serum Institute, which produces the bulk of the AstraZeneca vaccine doses distributed by the COVAX program. India has vaccinated more than 100 million citizens so far, according to the country's health ministry.

And in Europe, where most countries have adopted lockdowns to deal with rising infection rates, WHO Regional Director Hans Kluge announced that more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths had been surpassed in the European Region.

"The situation in our region is serious -- 1.6 million new cases are reported every week," he said at a press conference on Thursday. "That's 9,500 every hour, 160 people every minute. It is only among the oldest that we are seeing declining incidence."

On Monday, parts of the U.K. tentatively emerged from a monthslong lockdown, with outdoor dining in bars and restaurants, as well as shops, opening to customers. Now the country is reporting some of the lowest proportional number of cases and deaths in Europe, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson was keen to stress was the work of lockdowns -- not vaccinations.

"But it is very, very important for everybody to understand that the reduction in these numbers -- in hospitalizations and in deaths and infections -- has not been achieved by the vaccination program," he said this week. "People don't, I think, appreciate that it's the lockdown that has been overwhelmingly important in delivering this improvement."

Even countries that were initially praised for their handling of the pandemic, such as Germany, are now struggling, according to Reuters. German doctors have demanded action to deal with worsening situations in hospitals, with Angela Merkel having secured new powers to impose local lockdowns if cases surpass a certain threshold.

And while Britain is relaxing its lockdown laws, France entered a national lockdown earlier this month. The country became the third country in western Europe -- after the U.K. and Italy -- to record more than 100,000 coronavirus deaths.

[widdyphuck]

COVID-19 infections approaching highest rates ever, WHO warns
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/04/1089932

16 April 2021
Health
COVID-19 infections are approaching their highest rates since the pandemic began just over a year ago, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday.
“Around the world, cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying rates”, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking during his regular briefing.

“Globally, the number of new cases per week has nearly doubled over the past two months. This is approaching the highest rate of infection that we have seen so far during the pandemic.”

As of Friday, there were 138.5 million cases

WHO is the last group that should be talking because their job was to ensure sh!t like this doesn't happen.

[Dohplaydat]

Captain obvious WHO. It's also due to India and Brazil.

[goalpost]

full lockdowns are a coming

Somehow i doubt this will happen
They will keep implementing restrictions.