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On the covid19 frontline
Posted: Sunday, April 5, 2020

Cases climb to 103, 17 patients moved to Caura
The two newest cases were in contact with people who already had the virus.

Not in our backyard!
sangre grande Anger over relocation of COVID-19 patients to 'Grande'...

On the covid19 frontline
Doctors dealing with covid19 patients seem to be more concerned about transmitting the virus to their families than about contracting it themselves. In fact, they are so concerned that some have taken the precaution of moving out and temporarily renting apartments rather than going home after work.

Chaos in Barbados as groceries ordered shut
"They should have announced, on Thursday night, that the groceries would not open again until 15 April. What they were trying to prevent, they've encouraged. Plenty more people will get it now."?

PM: Shutdown could be extended
Extension of restrictions 'possible' over worsening COVID-19 crisis...

Shop from home
Pricesmart, Massy Stores and Pennywise Cosmetics Ltd all began promoting online orders and the use of mobile apps to place orders for curbside pick-up, in response to crowds outside their branches despite the pandemic orders on social distancing that people must be six feet apart.

As 8 Trini-New Yorkers die, family issues COVID warning
Relative of Trini who died of COVID-19 in US:

Woman dies of COVID in NY days after leaving T&T
Fifteen days after 78-year-old Zorida Wahid Khan returned to her home in Queens, New York, after vacationing in Trinidad and Tobago, she tested positive for the COVID-19. Five days after being diagnosed with the virus, Khan, who was originally from Tacarigua, died at a hospital Friday.

Deyalsingh warns against 'latching on' to fad treatments
As number of positive cases in T&T crosses 100...

5th COVID victim's family hurt by social media rumours
Debunking some of the erroneous information being circulated, she said Mootiram's family is currently in self-quarantine at their Garth Road, Williamsville home and not warded at the Couva Hospital. They have been tested and are awaiting results.

Special provisions for cancer patients now in force
She said this information was being shared throughout the Regional Health Authorities so that, no matter where people go, the treatment would be uniformed. She said new international information and recommendations would be closely monitored.

Caregivers denounce suggestion to remove elderly from homes
She said under the Private Hospitals Act, homes were required to have an isolation area, as well as an on-call doctor and nurse attached to the home. They also had strict sanitisation processes in place including having workers leave their shoes outside and shower before interacting with patients...there were between 3,000 and 6,000 elderly people in 169 registered.

TUTTA: TT not ready for CXC e-testing, consider 2021
This disadvantage faced by students who lack access to adequate resources will be an extra burden to the psychological impact of covid19 faced by all students.

Out of Africa: Trini's journey home amid pandemic
In Zanzibar, we rarely got internet access. We finally realised something was wrong when the French people began congregating. We asked, "What's going on?" and someone said, "They're trying to get hold of the French embassy because they are hearing that France's borders are closing."

A sea of worries: 11 Trinis in the Gulf of Mexico

Designers, seamstresses make masks in covid19 fight

PoS mayor wants clean city after pandemic
On Saturday, Martinez said sanitising the streets showed how clean it used to be and the clean fresh scent of the capital is a welcoming one.

Why us and not KFC and the others?
Sauce Doubles owner angry over shutdown action...

Caronavirus & Exercise
Importance of Exercise During the Caronavirus outbreak

MIND OF A MONSTER RAPIST
…not an ounce of remorse for raping 7-year-old daughter and girls; blames demons

Oh brother, who art Thou?
'He received lashes with the cat. He did tell me about that. And I felt that pain.'




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