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

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

Send this to every fat person, notice I didn't say obese even tho the video is about obese that is because Trinis are of the belief that they aren't obese when they are.

This will kill most Obese people and more than half of Trinidad obese, so send this out so that people who feel they are in good health will take Covid seriously

[paid_influencer]

I like they have a note on the press release detailing the number of new cases and the description. The 2 additional cases (up to 85) are close contacts of those already identified.

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

Hmm 80% of people on ventilators die, damn.....

Bess I dead in my own house yes.

[aaron17]

Send this to every fat person, notice I didn't say obese even tho the video is about obese that is because Trinis are of the belief that they aren't obese when they are.

This will kill most Obese people and more than half of Trinidad obese, so send this out so that people who feel they are in good health will take Covid seriously

Confusing yes

[The_Honourable]

So who else hear the voice note that GG release... saying that the TTPS not going to stop anybody on the roads or tell them where to go and they must work within the law and nothing has changed in the law to give the TTPS any new powers.

He also sheit up Rhoda Barath...

BTW how to attach a voice note?

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

US now at over 3000 deaths

https://apple.news/A8dorU3OQQuSTTXy_wfscNQ

[Gladiator]

Yeah that's it... thanks

So what the hell really going on? If Gary say his men cannot enforce any law to stop you from exercising or from transit on the public road then we can go out tomorrow?

So Stuart and Rowley bulshitting we then.... all this crap about letter and thing. My boss had to sit down and write about 200 letter....

So who else hear the voice note that GG release... saying that the TTPS not going to stop anybody on the roads or tell them where to go and they must work within the law and nothing has changed in the law to give the TTPS any new powers.

He also sheit up Rhoda Barath...

BTW how to attach a voice note?

[killercow]

US now at over 3000 deaths

https://apple.news/A8dorU3OQQuSTTXy_wfscNQ

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And over 20,000 new infections yesterday alone

[shogun]

US now at over 3000 deaths

https://apple.news/A8dorU3OQQuSTTXy_wfscNQ

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And over 20,000 new infections yesterday alone

What!?!

Had to go confirm if that was true, yes. Christ!

[redmanjp]

Yeah that's it... thanks

So what the hell really going on? If Gary say his men cannot enforce any law to stop you from exercising or from transit on the public road then we can go out tomorrow?

So Stuart and Rowley bulshitting we then.... all this crap about letter and thing. My boss had to sit down and write about 200 letter....

the thing is we allowed to leave for BOTH essential business (e.g. u work in d grocery, kfc, emergency services, utilities, etc) as well as essential activity (buying those groceries, kfc, drug store, etc.)

so if someone doesn't fall in teh first category and they doh have a letter what's to stop them from saying they buying grocery? or does my stomach have to write a letter saying ah hungry ?

it's a tricky thing to enforce and GG know that

[Gladiator]

US now at over 3000 deaths

https://apple.news/A8dorU3OQQuSTTXy_wfscNQ

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And over 20,000 new infections yesterday alone

What!?!

Had to go confirm if that was true, yes. Christ!

What the hell the world would really be after COVID pass through... the death toll growing fast too 37860 now globally

[redmanjp]

how much ppl did the 1918 spanish flu kill? cuz covid shaping up to do just as much damage or more depending on how long d world could be lock down for. this is that once in a century pandemic that bill gates and others were worried about

i think there was another wave of the Spanish flu in 1920 so covid come exactly 100 years later

[adnj]

Social Distancing Guidelines for Taxis:
All 4 Seaters are allowed only 2 passengers
All 7 seaters are allowed only 3 passengers
Taxi Drivers are now increasing fares

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That is price gouging. Same as raising the price on hand sanitizer or masks

no.

https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/driver ... rge-works/

uber is not a route taxi and there is LESS demand, not more (maxi drivers waiting hours these days for passengers)

That is cost-push inflation. The increase in pricing is rationalized but may actually drive down demand.

[URL]https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/111314/what-causes-inflation-and-does-anyone-gain-it.asp
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[adnj]

how much ppl did the 1918 spanish flu kill? cuz covid shaping up to do just as much damage or more depending on how long d world could be lock down for. this is that once in a century pandemic that bill gates and others were worried about

i think there was another wave of the Spanish flu in 1920 so covid come exactly 100 years later

An estimated 20 to 50 million died in the 1918 H1N1 pandemic. With a world population of 1.8 billion during the 1918 pandemic, Covid-19 would need to kill 85 to 215 million people to match the 1918 crude death rate.

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[redmanjp]

it's official - it's no longer contained


https://trinidadexpress.com/news/t-t-ha ... ium=social

The Health Ministry's Chief Medical Officer says the two latest COVID-19-positive victims appear to be the first cases of 'local spread'.

Dr Roshan Parasram said more such cases could be expected in the coming days and it was critical for the population to following the appeal of the authorities and stay at home to help slow the spread.

As of this morning, the country had recorded three deaths, and 82 COVID 19-positive cases. The three deaths were all males over the age of 70. Three of the cases are in Tobago. Two have these Tobago victims have been taken by Coast Guard vessel to Trinidad, a four-hour trip. The third, who condition is severe, is still in Tobago an preparations are being made for his treatment.

The airlifting of patients from Tobago is being considered.

At a press briefing this morning, Parasram said that since the first imported COVID-19 case on March 12, there has been multiple imported cases.

“ After the importation phase goes past and we still are receiving to the most part mostly imported cases , we would see cases that are primary and secondary contacts of those that are positive or suspected and we have had few of those as well... wives and spouses of those that would have been infected”.

He told citizens that the next phrase of the epidemic is usually is low volume local spread “and over the last 24 hours we have received two cases, one in Tobago and one in Trinidad...”.

He said the authorities were still awaiting the clinicians to go back to the source to rule out completely that there was no link to the previous case or there was no history of travel or contact with a traveller.

“But looking at both cases from the surface of it, it seems like these cases may very well be our first few cases of local spread.

What is local spread?

Dr Parasram distinguished local spread from community spread.

He said “Local spread is expected right after you have importation, meaning somebody is unlinked and I spoke about hidden cases, meaning that you could have been expressing symptoms, left your home, gone to a supermarket and been in close contact with someone that you would not have known, and that person now developed symptoms...that is what we call a local case or hidden case.”

He said there would be a few more local cases in the coming days.

Community spread, he said means a large number of local cases spreading among a large segment of the population.

“We have not gotten to the stage of community spread but we are seeing a few cases of local spread…which is normally part of the epidemic evolution”.

It's up to us

Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said that as at 10a.m today, 539 tests were done and the country had recorded four new cases of COVID 19.

Forty-nine of the cases came from one source - the cruise ship passengers who returned from Guadeloupe.

He said that the country’s ‘case load’ was 62.4 per million and the global average was 102.29 per million.

“We are just over half of the global average and this number is going to rise” he said.

He said that next two weeks would be crucial for the country, and much depended on how people responded to the stay-at-home order.

“Every regulation to date has been with the sole objective to protect the individuals, elderly and family of health care workers. We are imploring people from this morning that the only solution is stay home, stay safe”.

63 quarantined in Tobago

During the press conference in Port of Spain, the authorities in Tobago issued a statement confirming the third positive case of COVID-19 was recorded in the island.

The individual has since been isolated and is being closely monitored.

These are the figures out in Tobago.

• Number of samples submitted to Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) laboratory to test for COVID-19 = 31

• Number of samples that tested positive = 3

• Number of remaining persons at the Division’s quarantine facilities = 63

[killercow]

how much ppl did the 1918 spanish flu kill? cuz covid shaping up to do just as much damage or more depending on how long d world could be lock down for. this is that once in a century pandemic that bill gates and others were worried about

i think there was another wave of the Spanish flu in 1920 so covid come exactly 100 years later

Now I'm in no way a fan of what is currently taking place. As unfortunate and as dire as the current situation is, some people look at it from an alternative perspective (that being a population control perspective).

The global annual population growth rate is about 83 million people.
The global population in 2000 was 6.1 billion.
The current global population is 7.8 billion.
The global population is 2040 is expected to be 9+ billion.
(note well God eh making no more land and earth to accommodate these people eh which is also why land will never depreciate and will always be the best investment / asset to possess)

Every so often throughout the course of history there have been pandemics, war, famine etc. that have acted as a form of population control. For every situation in life, someone always benefits no matter what. When there's crime, the policeman and judge / magistrate have a job. When you get sick, the pharmacist and doctor smile. And when you die, representatives from the various funeral homes stand outside the mortuary eagerly waiting to converse with your loved ones.
Everything in life is about perspective.

[screwbash]

Send this to every fat person, notice I didn't say obese even tho the video is about obese that is because Trinis are of the belief that they aren't obese when they are.

This will kill most Obese people and more than half of Trinidad obese, so send this out so that people who feel they are in good health will take Covid seriously

Confusing yes

allyuh google the dr name ? he is not a dr dealing wit pandemic and virus. he is a weight loss dr an surgeon and a low rated one at the same time. poor reviews. but all logic say to wear a mask at all times an advoid getting it. if wuhan ha hav 11 million people and only 90000 were infected then it is possible to wear a mask and not get the virus. USA an england not wearing a mask and see what going on dey

[shake d livin wake d dead]

so I guess that's it for imported??

[killercow]

so I guess that's it for imported??

Well borders locked and given the time-frame now I guess we can safely assume this. From hereon out additional cases may very well be either secondary transmission via affiliation to primary cases or community spread.

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

Have you seen his credentials? he clearly shows all of it in the video, he is a Doctor of Medicine meaning a real Certified Medical Doctor and Surgeon allowed to practice in the United States as he has passed all the criteria and he has over a decade of experience at that, when you go by your local family doctor do you tell him that he isn't a credible doctor because he didn't graduate from Oxford? do you tell him he doesn't know what he is talking about when he tells you that you are setting up yourself to die from a heart attack due to your obesity and chronic high blood pressure just because he isn't a Heart Surgeon?

Some ah allyuh really jokey in this place yes.

[cornfused]

Re face mask usage .

From the World Health Organization (WHO)

When to use a mask


If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection.
Wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing.
Masks are effective only when used in combination with frequent hand-cleaning with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
If you wear a mask, then you must know how to use it and dispose of it properly.
When and how to wear medical masks to protect against coronavirus


Before putting on a mask, clean hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
Cover mouth and nose with mask and make sure there are no gaps between your face and the mask.
Avoid touching the mask while using it; if you do, clean your hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
Replace the mask with a new one as soon as it is damp and do not re-use single-use masks.
To remove the mask: remove it from behind (do not touch the front of mask); discard immediately in a closed bin; clean hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.

2020 WHO

[hydroep]

Taking political advantage of the situation, Hungary's parliament has passed a vote giving President Viktor Orbán the right to: "rule by decree for as long as he chooses". People can also be jailed for 5 years for spreading "fake news" about coronavirus or "measures against it"...

Hungary passes law allowing Viktor Orban to rule by decree

Hungary's leader has been granted greater powers to help fight the spread of coronavirus in a move critics are calling a power grab.

Hungary's parliament on Monday passed a bill that greatly increases the power of the country's far-right prime minister, Victor Orban.

The premier had said the move is necessary to fight the spread of coronavirus. Orban has asked to extend a national state of emergency that would give his government the right to pass special decrees in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Lawmakers passed the bill with 137 votes against 52 in Hungary's lower chamber. Orban's Fidesz party holds a two-thirds majority there.

The bill allows the government to indefinitely extend the country's state of emergency and the attached rule-by-decree powers, according to a draft of the bill posted on March 20 on the parliament website. Normally such extensions would need approval by Hungary's parliament.

The draft also includes the introduction of jail terms of up to five years for people who spread "fake news" about the virus or measures against it, raising anxieties about freedom of press in Hungary.

Opposition politicians, human rights groups, and Europe's leading human rights organization the Council of Europe have spoken out against the move, which does not make clear how long the emergency powers will be in effect.

"This is the only country in Europe that has unlimited power for an unlimited amount of time," DW's corespondent in Budapest Art Szoczi said. Many governments around Europe have enacted similar emergency powers, but generally with a timeframe limited to between 30 and 90 days.

"Opposition parties are concerned that that means there could be an abuse of power," Szoczi said. "There were actually a number of opposition members who said they agree with the unlimited powers, but not the unlimited amount of time."

Orban has gradually expanded his powers since taking office in 2010. The 56-year-old leader has had frequent clashes with human rights groups and EU institutions. The Council of Europe penned a letter to Orban earlier this month, warning that an "indefinite and uncontrolled state of emergency cannot guarantee that the basic principles of democracy will be observed."

Orban defends law

Orban responded, urging Council of Europe Secretary General Pejcinovic Buric to study the text of the law. He also stated, "If you are not able to help us in the current crisis, please at least refrain from hindering our defensive efforts."

EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders previously said the EU would assess whether the bill adheres to the bloc
s rule of law standards.

"We will verify what kind of text will be adopted … and of course we will verify if it's in line with our vision on the rule of law and fundamental rights, and if it's needed to take an initiative," he told Politico last week.

Hungary previously prolonged a state of emergency for several years when it extended measures instituted in 2015 over fear of mass migration, despite a decrease in the number of migrants coming to Hungary.

kp/aw (AFP, Reuters)

https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-passes-law-allowing-viktor-orban-to-rule-by-decree/a-52956243

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it's official - it's no longer contained


https://trinidadexpress.com/news/t-t-ha ... ium=social

The Health Ministry's Chief Medical Officer says the two latest COVID-19-positive victims appear to be the first cases of 'local spread'.

Dr Roshan Parasram said more such cases could be expected in the coming days and it was critical for the population to following the appeal of the authorities and stay at home to help slow the spread.

As of this morning, the country had recorded three deaths, and 82 COVID 19-positive cases. The three deaths were all males over the age of 70. Three of the cases are in Tobago. Two have these Tobago victims have been taken by Coast Guard vessel to Trinidad, a four-hour trip. The third, who condition is severe, is still in Tobago an preparations are being made for his treatment.

The airlifting of patients from Tobago is being considered.

At a press briefing this morning, Parasram said that since the first imported COVID-19 case on March 12, there has been multiple imported cases.

“ After the importation phase goes past and we still are receiving to the most part mostly imported cases , we would see cases that are primary and secondary contacts of those that are positive or suspected and we have had few of those as well... wives and spouses of those that would have been infected”.

He told citizens that the next phrase of the epidemic is usually is low volume local spread “and over the last 24 hours we have received two cases, one in Tobago and one in Trinidad...”.

Given that all persons with flu-like symptoms are not being tested, about 80% of symptomatic persons have mild to moderate symptoms, it is reasonable to expect four symptomatic cases for each person that has symptoms serious enough to be tested in T&T.

[URL]https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-guidance-management-patients.html
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Testing and Screening for COVID-19

Where are the samples being tested?

The samples are being tested at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), which is the only (Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO), approved laboratory in our country to test for the virus. 

Who needs to be tested?

This will be determined by the public health officials depending on the evolving situation. These are in accordance with the guidance provided by the World Health Organization. Not everyone with flu-like symptoms needs to be tested. At this time, if you do not fit the criteria, testing will not be performed. Factors such as clinical history, travel history and/or contact with a COVID-19 positive patient are considered.

[URL]http://www.health.gov.tt/sitepages/default.aspx?id=305
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[shake d livin wake d dead]

1 more raj decided to go one step further than ihen...I know allyuh on this patient confidentiality thing so yuh know nah

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Patient on the run

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Batches a man now escape from Mt hope hospital he went in sick and tested positive for covid 19 when the doctors went to get him quarantine he ran out of the hospital the doctor brought the letter at the cunupia police station to ask for assistance to have him quarantineD

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Seems to be some bachannal brewing in and around jerningham junction...a raj tested positive and escaped...TTPS confirmed this info and they are looking for him atm...I will not post the name of the raj until further notice

[MaxPower]

Seems to be some bachannal brewing in and around jerningham junction...a raj tested positive and escaped...TTPS confirmed this info and they are looking for him atm...I will not post the name of the raj until further notice

DP

[Musical Doc]

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Batches a man now escape from Mt hope hospital he went in sick and tested positive for covid 19 when the doctors went to get him quarantine he ran out of the hospital the doctor brought the letter at the cunupia police station to ask for assistance to have him quarantineD

He ran away from Couva Hospital, not mt hope

[paid_influencer]

i hope they ketch him and break he as

[paid_influencer]

press conference on now.

NEWS:
Limit for public gatherings to be reduced from 10 persons to 5 persons.