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THE EDITOR: As 2022 unfurls, there is much cause for concern on TT's covid19 pandemic front. With new records set for cases and deaths in December - 20,538 cases and 711 deaths - recent history offers little hope that the Government's most recent proposal to stop the bleeding will be successful in the short term.
Semantics aside, the Government's 'no vaccine, no pay' policy for all workers on the public payroll, promoted by Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh as an essential tool since his ministry simply could not continue 'to report 30 deaths per day,' will likely fail in pursuit of such goal if the experience of First World powers is any indication.
Dr Amesh Adalja of John Hopkins University in the US, in the course of an interview with MSNBC on October 5 last, noted 'there's been a lot of spread of infection and a lot of disruption to people's lives because we lack proper testing.'
The thrust of an October 6, 2021, New York Times newsletter was to lay out the difficulty citizens of the US were experiencing in locating rapid tests; a stark contrast to residents of Britain, France, Germany and other places where such tests were widely credited in reducing the virus's spread. It is common knowledge that the outcomes of the recent delta surge, ie, hospitalisations and deaths, were worse in the US than in Europe, even though Europe's vaccination rate was only modestly higher.
Dr Jennifer Nuzzo and Emily Pond, epidemiologists at the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, had earlier in the year noted: 'Even with vaccines, the coronavirus won't subside if we don't keep tabs on it.' President Biden has since belatedly heeded this warning; US$2 billion for rapid testing was included in the American Rescue Plan Act.
In TT, the value of testing - rapid and otherwise - remains grossly under-appreciated, to say the least; it is a chronic problem set to get worse. The country has now lurched from the ancestral SARS-Cov-2 (July/September 2020) to the gamma variant (April/August 2021) and is presently in the midst of a transition from delta to the omicron variant, each surge characterised by geometric increases in transmissibility, and thus an unrestrained rise in new cases.
The Ministry of Health, meanwhile, has persisted with its strategy of reporting results of PCR testing two-five days later, an incongruous gaffe, since for many the days of maximum infectivity were already bypassed, making isolation and quarantining at that point of little utility. When such faux pas is coupled with perennial under-testing - mainly those showing up at testing venues for whatever reasons (presence of symptoms, known exposure, and impending travel) being tested - opportunities to diagnose and isolate the mildly symptomatic and asymptomatic people are being irrevocably lost.
Bottom line, the number of new cases could be geometrically higher and that translates into thousands of infectious people circulating among a public exerting maximum effort at adhering to the public health regulations, including older people compr
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh rejected claims from Naparima MP Rodney Charles that Trinidad and Tobago has \"the worst record in the (Western Hemisphere) for accessing (covid19) vaccines.\"
As Deyalsingh responded to a question from Caroni Central MP Arnold Ram in the House of Representatives, Charles asked, why the private-sector option was not pursued before.
Ram had asked Deyalsingh to explain the criteria by which private agencies could procure vaccines.
As UNC MPs' desk-thumping subsided, Deyalsingh said,\"That comment is based on a false premise. If you look at our rates of vaccination, they are going up radically.\"
PNM MPs thumped their desks in response.
Deyalsingh said, \"All these measures are the typical measures being used to import new drugs into the country to assure the safety of the population
\"This has been in effect for years and for decades, and we are simply adapting it to vaccines.\"
Asked by Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal to name any private-sector entities requesting permission to import covid19 vaccines. Deyalsingh said, \"That information is not available to me at this point in time. I am simply giving you the procedure that any private-sector firm can use to import any drug, inclusive of any drug or new drug or vaccine, into TT. It applies across the board.\"
When Moonilal repeated his question, Deyalsingh said, \"People have but I don't have the names.\"
Quoting from a letter sent out to anyone interested in procuring World Health Organisation (WHO)-approved covid19 vaccines under the Food and Drug Act, Deyalsingh said certain information is required.
He said this included the \"tradename and form, the name of the manufacturer, country of origin , condition of sale (pandemic use or emergency use authorisation).\"
The application, he said, must be submitted to the ministry's Chemistry, Food and Drugs Division by an agent representing the interested party \"for registration and consequence report.\"
Deyalsingh said the site where the vaccines will be administered \"must be equipped with the usual equipment, especially resuscitation equipment, how it's going to be used.\"
All vaccine vials must be incinerated, he said, and destruction certificates permitted for unused vials. In addition, accordance with Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) requirements, Deyalsingh said the vaccine numbers and expiry dates, batch release certificates and all certificates of analysis, must be provided. Details of the vaccination sites being used, as well as personnel who are administering the vaccines, must be provided to the ministry as well.
Deyalsingh said the ministry must receive weekly reports from any successful private-sector entity about the number of people vaccinated and any adverse reactions\"
He reminded MPs, \"This is basically what we are doing now, and it applies to anyone wishing to import vaccines.\"
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Africa and Kenya for that matter don’t have to follow the path developed nations took over 130 years ago to power their economies through coal plants.
Sweden just shuttered it’s last remaining coal plant two years ahead of their target joining the ranks of Belgium and Austria – the latter shutting its last coal plant in April this year and transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy.
And despite President Trump’s administration’s support for the coal industry in the United States the fact is coal power plants are closing fast.
Understandably, there are people in majority African governments who feel that these countries that are transitioning to renewable energy developed using coal power plants and that time is ripe for African nations including Kenya to use coal plants as a “cheaper” way of powering the continent.
Instead of calling communities that want sustainable development anti-development, they should push developed countries that are still using coal power plants to consider investing in renewable energy projects that will help mitigate climate change and protect our poor communities from the distressing impacts of climate change.
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OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has reiterated her call for Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh to resign or be fired.
She cited Thursday's alphabetical rollout system for the first jab of the Sinopharm covid19 vaccine as: \"another day, another manufactured disaster.\"
In a post on her Facebook page on Thursday, Persad-Bissessar said Deyalsingh, who presided over the \"superspreader event\" on Wednesday when thousands of people jammed up outside health centres across Trinidad for the walk-in for the Sinopharm jab, was at the helm once again on Thursday when people whose surname began with the letters A-E were again turned away.
\"After Wednesday's super spreader vaccination event,\" she pointed out, \"the minister apologised and said a new alphabetical system would be used. The impression was given that the elderly with the surnames A-E can visit a health centre Thursday and receive their vaccines.
\"At no time did the minister indicate that only 50 jabs would be available,\" she said.
Persad-Bissessar said another nightmare unfolded for the elderly, who came out in their numbers on Thursday only to be disappointed once again.
She said in her constituency of Siparia, there were reports of many being turned away from the district health facility. The elderly stood in lines for two and three hours only to be told there was a limit on vaccines available.
Why expose the most vulnerable to the virus, she asked.
\"Why is such cruelty being inflicted on our elderly? Why can't Government admit that it is unable to handle the management of this pandemic on its own and accept help?\"
She said it was unconscionable, reckless, heartless and irresponsible for Deyalsingh to treat people in this way and continue defiantly walking on a failed path.
It was also illogical and \"downright foolish,\" she charged, to allocate 50 vaccines per health centre, thereby vaccinating a mere 1,800 elderly people a day, when a proper plan could be implemented with the assistance of the Opposition and stakeholders to allow mass vaccinations in a shorter timeframe.
She called for Deyalsingh to be held to account.
\"The Prime Minister must rein in his minister and take control of the Health Ministry himself or replace him (Deyalsingh) with someone who is competent.\"
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IN a bid not to repeat the chaos that took place last week, the Health Ministry will be contacting people 65 years and older who are already registered in the health care system to receive their covid19 vaccines.
Using 36 health centres across Trinidad and Tobago, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said 20,000 people will get their first dose starting from Wednesday.
Deyalsingh, who spoke at the health briefing at the Prime Minister's residence, St Ann's on Saturday, said the new method is not a dismissing of the old appointment system but was a better way to manage the vaccine roll out.
He said the distribution of 50 doses per health centre done last week will be scrapped. The adjusted programme, he said, will also target those who made appointments and were on the waiting list prior to last week's debacle, including elderly people who cannot visit the health centre, through the district health visitor, and those living in homes for the elderly.
'We will be contacting you and asking you to come to the sites. You don't have to come. You don't have to line up. You don't have to be inconvenienced.'
Deyalsingh said in the next two to three weeks the Health Ministry will be using an online system, similar to what the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs use for birth registration for vaccine appointments.
Dr Rowley said on Monday 200,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccines, out of 500,000 ordered from China, will arrive in the country. Half of that will be used to give people the second dose.
The elderly will be among those who benefit from the remaining 100,000 vaccines that will be distributed to various sectors. The other include the manufacturing, supermarkets, construction, banking, Tobago, private sector, diabetes association and employees of the Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP). All will receive both their doses for the remaining 100,000 doses.
Deyalsingh said the vaccination drive for those who received their first jab of AstraZeneca vaccine continues at the five vaccination sites across the country.
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Even though Shivana Rampersad was at the Southern Academy for Performing Arts (SAPA) in San Fernando on Monday to get vaccinated, she had little enthusiasm about being there.
Instead, Rampersad, a public servant, said if she did not submit her immunisation card to her office payroll department, she would not get paid.
Rampersad told Newsday, “I’m here to get it to go to work, because if I don’t get it (the vaccine), I wouldn’t get paid. The vaccination card is going to payroll, and if I don’t send it, I’m not getting paid.”
On December 18, the Prime Minister announced that all public servants and employees at state agencies, including National Security, will be required to be vaccinated by January 15 or stay home without pay.
On Monday, SAPA started dedicating two lines to public servants like Rampersad to get their jabs. Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh announced the special lines on December 29 and said they were intended to make the vaccination process easier for public servants.
[caption id=\"attachment_932736\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1024\"] A regristration personnel assist citizens in the public servants line at the vaccination site at Southern Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA), San Fernando. Photo by Ayanna Kinsale[/caption]
Apart from this, Deyalsingh said the Government Campus Plaza in Port of Spain has been set up as a vaccination site solely for public servants.
When Newsday visited SAPA around 9.15am on Monday, there were fewer than ten public servants, including Rampersad, using the lines. One official told Newsday there had been a stream of public servants when the site opened its doors at 8am, but the numbers weren’t sustained.
Another public servant, Princes Town resident Tyrese Modeste, shared Rampersad’s muted enthusiasm, but didn’t feel he had been compelled to take the shot.
Modeste added, “Me taking it was based upon my personal conviction but I don’t feel like I was forced to take it.”
While there were few public servants, there was a stream of other people visiting SAPA to get various vaccines.
Nurse Tenika Serrette accompanied her 15-year-old son Kazim Serrette to get his first Pfizer injection.
[caption id=\"attachment_932735\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1024\"] A security guard of the PRD Security Services Limited stand in the public servants line at the vaccination site at Southern Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA), San Fernando Photo by Ayanna Kinsale[/caption]
She told Newsday, “He wanted to come out and get it done, because he wanted to feel a little safer going back out to physical school.
“I will tell other parents that it is their personal choice, but if the child wants to get vaccinated, the parent should not stop them from doing it.”
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HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh implored people to protect their loved ones from covid19 infection by not congregating for Mother's Day on Sunday, addressing a briefing at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann's on Friday.
\"If we treat Mother's Day as another excuse to gather at the homes of our mothers, we may not have those mothers for Mothers Day 2022.
\"If you love your mother, Mother's Day 2021 is the mother's day where you show your love by staying away.\"
Deyalsingh said some who were direly ill with covid19 were finally admitting breaching covid19 precautions.
\"People are now making death-bed confessions. I went to a party, I had a party, I went to a lime,\" he related.
Dr Michelle Trotman, Thoracic Medical Director at the Caura Hospital, said she came with a heavy heart as the typical patient profile has now shifted to that of a person aged 30, 35 or 40. While previously most covid19 patients were elderly people with mild symptoms, she said, \"The vast proportion of our patients are now coming in very ill.\"
Trotman said ill patients often to admit to having attended parties and gatherings. \"These patients when they are ill volunteer a lot more than when they are well. Quite frankly, it's frightening. You enter, after you are ill, a point of fear.\" She hoped people would not know someone with covid19 who died, as she implored people to take simple steps to save their own lives in the face of a disease taking away the future of our country. \"Clinically we are seeing patients who are not only more ill but they are taking a longer time to get better.\" Trotman pleaded for the public's health.
She said managing a covid19 patient was far more demanding on nurses and doctors than a normal patient due to the threat if getting infected themselves.
\"In the run of the day you have to not only take care of the patient but you have to take care of yourself to ensure you could come back to take care of more tomorrow.\"
The need to sanitise for each patients delays the medical staff in their work, she added.
\"I know we can do this with everyone on board, but I want you to think about the challenge it is for our healthcare workers, that are doing this day in, day out, second in, second out,\" Trotman pleaded. \"We may not be that person's mother or father but it's our patient. It matters to us that they get better and when they don't, it has a psychological effect on us as healthcare workers.\"
She thanked each healthcare worker who was giving their life, soul and blood in this pandemic, and begged people to mask and sanitise.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram said compared to last year, the covid19 virus now has much greater transmission. He said recent measures to curb the spread have not yet worked due to the new variant and the fact of people continuing to congregate. He urged people to wear their masks.
Epidemiologist Dr Avery Hinds said 37 per cent of people tested prove positive for covid19. He said the peak age group for infection was now 25-49 years, which group comprised 56 per cent of new
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CIVIL servants yesterday caved in and accepted government’s 41% salary increase offer, which will see the lowest paid teacher getting $19 000, while the lowest earning civil servant will get about $14 000 with effect from November 1. BY RICHARD MUPONDE/MOSES MATENGA They also accepted bonus payments which will be staggered until December. This was confirmed by Apex Council spokesperson, David Dzatsunga, who said they had agreed to the government offer, which would include transport, housing and special representative allowances. Last Friday, the government made a take it or leave it offer to its workers in an attempt to end the long-running strike by teachers. Labour unions representing teachers had been demanding US$520 which they used to get in 2018. The teachers’ unions said the Apex council should declare a deadlock so that the matter could be taken for arbitration. Dzatsunga said the Apex Council then asked for time to consult with its constituency before a meeting of the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) which took place yesterday. “We have signed an agreement today (Monday). We agreed that the government will pay 41% of basic salary, and all other allowances that include housing, transport, special allowances and representative allowances,” Dzatsunga said. “So we said the government should go ahead and pay. Further to that it will pay bonuses which will be staggered from November to December. Of interest is the teachers’ salaries which will see teachers getting about $19 000 and the lowest paid civil servant, B1 getting about $14 000,” he said. Dzatsunga said they agreed to meet again in January next year to come up with how they could restore the lost value of the 2018 salaries. “We said, therefore, it’s best that the meeting takes place and that going forward the government should emphasise on the salaries of civil servants,” he said. He said they agreed to sign the deal because they saw that the year was left with a few weeks, adding that if they had refused to do so, workers were not going to get an increment this year. “Some had indicated that we declare a deadlock and go for arbitration but we saw that it takes months for the process to be concluded, to even mid-next year before a verdict is passed, which is not always in our favour. We saw that a deadlock is not in our favour and agreed to take the money which is there as we negotiate further.” Teachers’ unions that have been pushing for a deadlock including the Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (Zimta) and the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe. After the NJNC meeting, Zimta, the largest teachers’ organisation asked its members to go back to their workstations. In a letter dated November 16 signed by its national secretary-general, Tapson Nganunu Sibanda, the teachers’ union said they were pushing for a deadlock but they were outvoted by other unions. “It’s now common knowledge that Zimta presented a motion to Apex Council through a letter circulated this morning, a position that encouraged Apex Council and the NJNC to declare a deadlock and
Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said Cabinet notes and other documents related to the Couva Medical and Multi-Training Facility will be turned over to the police.
He said the Health Ministry looks forward to working with the police on the matter.
On June 1, the Opposition Leader wrote to North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) chairman Steve De Las and CEO Davlin Thomas querying whether the RHA had the legal authority to run the facility.
She said it should be run by the South West RHA, as it is situated in the Couva/ Tabaquite/ Talparo Regional Corporation, for which the SWRHA has responsibility.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar said the Couva Medical and Multi-Training Facility was incorporated in 2018 under the Companies Act 1995. She said at that time Finance Minister Colm Imbert said it would be jointly owned by the government and UWI.
“However, based on the most recent annual returns filed for the company on August 26, 2020, the only shareholder was the Minister of Finance, as corporation sole, holding all ten ordinary shares at a value of $1 per share that was issued. No shares have been issued to the UWI. Therefore, the company remains a company wholly owned by the State.”
San Juan/Barataria MP Saddam Hosein said on June 4 that the UNC would refer the matter to the Commissioner of Police for immediate criminal investigation.
Speaking at the Health Ministry’s media conference on Wednesday, Deyalsingh said, “There were Cabinet minutes number 570, and number 1284, dating back to 2018, (in) which Cabinet agreed to set up a special-purpose company, the Couva Medical and Multi-Training Facility, which comprises 51 per cent shareholding by UWI, and 49 per cent by government.
\" The very broad remit of that is to operate the facility, so notice the term, the very broad remit. So we look forward to turning over all these documents to the police as the Opposition Leader has said, and we would take it from there. So that is the authority under which, the broad remit, as I said, meaning the operationalisation of the facility, and we will comply and assist and work with the police as Mrs Persad-Bissessar has said.”
Speaking to Newsday on Wednesday, De Las said he had acknowledged receipt of the letter from the Opposition Leader’s office.
“I saw media reports that there was a report to the police,\" he added. \"I see a request was made for the police to investigate, and I don’t want to comment further.”
\"I have acknowledged receipt of the letter from the Leader of the Opposition’s office.\"
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Senegalese President Macky Sall has quarantined himself as a precaution after coming in contact with someone who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to a presidential statement late Wednesday.
Although Sall tested negative for the virus, he will be undergoing a quarantine process of 15 days based on medical recommendations.
Yeya Diallo, a lawmaker in parliament, announced earlier in the day that she had tested positive for the virus and called on people to take essential personal measures such as maintaining hygiene and social distancing.
After originating in Wuhan, China last December, COVID-19 has spread to at least 188 countries and regions.
The pandemic has killed more than 482,000 people worldwide, with an excess of 9.4 million confirmed cases and greater than 4.7 million recoveries, according to figures compiled by US-based Johns Hopkins University.
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Operations at the five sites designated for the second dose of the AstraZeneca covid19 vaccine flowed smoothly on Wednesday.
This was in stark contrast to the chaotic scenes at vaccination sites across the country where first doses of the Sinopharm vaccine were being offered. Walk-in shots were announced as being available there for people over 60 and those under 60 with non-communicable diseases
Wednesday marked the first day of the government's attempt at a first-come-first-served vaccine distribution.
Things were completely different at the Paddock, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain; Southern Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA); National Racquet Centre, Tacarigua; the Mayaro Sports Facility, and the Cumana Outreach Centre.
Unlike reports of uncontrollable crowds at almost all 36 first-dose vaccination sites, there were no long lines or mass gatherings at second-dose sites.
At the Savannah site, the compound was empty and gates locked by 3 pm. A security guard explained to Newsday only those with appointments were catered to. He said there were no lines, and all second doses were administered by 2 pm.
As of Wednesday afternoon, 5,896 people had received the second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
[caption id=\"attachment_891165\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1024\"] A vial containing the AstraZeneca vaccine. - Photo by Ayanna Kinsale[/caption]
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