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Five dead, 564 infected

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Photo courtesy CDC. FIVE more people were reported on Sunday to have died of covid19, said the Ministry of Health in its daily update, while 564 more became infected from Tuesday to Saturday. The dead were two elderly males, two elderly females and one middled-aged male. Four victims had multiple co-morbidities and one had one co-morbidity. These co-morbidities included diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, heart disease, dementia, strokes, multiple myeloma, […]

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