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has said that public health workers
who were not willing to take a vaccine
to help stop the spread of the COVID-
19 will be required to test regularly to
prove their status.
In addition, he said
they would have to meet
the cost of the test.
The government has
said unvaccinated public
sector workers must take a COVID-
19 test at least once every two weeks.
The first test will be provided free of
cost and after that, the workers would
be expected pay the EC$26 for each of
the other tests.
Gonsalves told radio listeners he was
aware of a hotel construction site with
170 employees that had closed for a
week after two workers tested positive
for COVID-19.
He said 20 percent of the people in
the country have taken the vaccine.
The prime minister said there were
about 50,000 workers in the country
and assuming that 10,000 of them had
been vaccinated, the other 40,000 will
have to be tested regularly.
TRINIDAD
Trinidad and Tobago has recorded
more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths since
March last year when the pandemic hit
the country.
The deadly virus has left no household
or family untouched.
Nearly one in every 39 people in the
country has been confirmed to have the
deadly virus.
About one in every 1,400 people have
lost their lives to the deadly virus.
In the last COVID-19 spike in the
country, occurring between late August
2020 and
October 2020, the country recorded
5,266 cases with 98 deaths.
For 23 days of July, 179 have died
from the virus. For the same period
in June, there were 273
deaths.
June saw the highest
number of COVID-19
deaths (352) , while the
second highest number of deaths was
recorded in May (326)
Tobago death toll increased to 33 last
week.
Trinidad and Tobago’ s positive cases
now stand at 5,783, with 298 active cases
recorded in Tobago as of last week.
So far in July, 4,272 people have
tested positive for COVID-19. A total of
29,915 have been recorded in 2021.
The Ministry of Health has vaccinated
to date, 91,844 people with the the
first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine;
216,617 the first dose of the Sinopharm
vaccine.
A total of 179,382 have been fully vaccinated.
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