Trinidad and Tobago records three new cases of Delta Variant

Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday recorded three additional Cases of the Delta Variant, the health ministry reported. The authorities stated that there are now a total of ten cases of Delta Variant in the country.

According to officials, one patient is a non-national who recently travelled to Trinidad from Venezuela, while another is an unvaccinated minor. The authorities are carrying out researches to distinguish any contacts of the newly identified patients.

The Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Health stated that the presence of the Delta variant was confirmed via gene sequencing at the Faculty of Medical Sciences laboratory, University of the West Indies. All patients have been placed in isolation until the enhanced discharge criteria for COVID-19 Variants of Concern are achieved.

Officials said that contact tracing, testing and quarantining of contacts

have been initiated.

According to the data recently released by the World Health Organisation (WHO), cases of Delta Variant were reported in over 174 countries. Research has proposed that the Delta variant spreads from one person to another more easily. It is also recognized as more transmissible than the first Wuhan family of the virus.

Besides this, the research reveals that individuals who have contracted this variant may be prone to a grown chance of critical illness and hospitalization. This variant may also result in an increase in cases of COVID-19 in younger age groups. People who had been previously infected as also at high risk from the Delta Variant.