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Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has said there is three known omicron cases in Trinidad and Tobago.
He made the disclosure at Saturday’s health update at the Prime Minister's press conference at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s, Port of Spain.
Deyalsingh said the three cases have a travel history with the first case being reported on December 9. The woman travelled from JFK International Airport in New York to go to Panama and then came to Trinidad on a Copa Airlines flight.
He said the second case was detected within a group of 16 passengers who were in Puerto Rico due to an emergency landing and while they all had their PCR tests, it expired because of the extended stay.
“When they arrived in TT, they we quarantined and retested. Out of that batch of 16, we got one positive case of omicron. All 16 persons were fully vaccinated and the one positive case for omicron is in isolation.
The third case was someone who returned to TT from Miami.
“The third person was compliant with all the requirements of TTPS and had a negative PCR and was vaccinated but then turned symptomatic on December 10. This person behaved in a responsible manner and got tested.”
Deyalsingh said one of the omicron-positive cases had contact with one another person and both were in home quarantine.
The post TT now has 3 omicron covid19 cases appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
He replaces Debretsion Gebremichael, whose immunity from prosecution was removed Thursday.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a \"massacre\" in the Tigray region, that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party.
The \"massacre\" is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict between the regional ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize.
\"Amnesty International can today confirm... that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the southwest of Ethiopia's Tigray Region on the night of 9 November,\" the rights group said in a report.
Amnesty said it had \"digitally verified gruesome photographs and videos of bodies strewn across the town or being carried away on stretchers.\"
The dead \"had gaping wounds that appear to have been inflicted by sharp weapons such as knives and machetes,\" Amnesty said, citing witness accounts.
Witnesses said the attack was carried out by TPLF-aligned forces after a defeat at the hands of the Ethiopian military, though Amnesty said it \"has not been able to confirm who was responsible for the killings\".
It nonetheless called on TPLF commanders and officials to \"make clear to their forces and their supporters that deliberate attacks on civilians are absolutely prohibited and constitute war crimes\".
Abiy ordered military operations in Tigray on November 4, saying they were prompted by a TPLF attack on federal military camps -- a claim the party denies.
The region has been under a communications blackout ever since, making it difficult to verify competing claims on the ground.
Abiy said Thursday his army had made major gains in western Tigray.
Thousands of Ethiopians have fled across the border into neighboring Sudan, and the UN is sounding the alarm about a humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
A top official linked to the Olympic Games suggested on Thursday that a cheering ban could be put in place in Tokyo to limit the spread of COVID-19.
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By Sunita Sohrabji and Pilar MarreroSpecial to the Trice Edney News Wire from Ethnic Media Services(TriceEdneyWire.com) - In a country that is polarized and hurt by Covid-19 and a divisive leadership, a massive turnout of voters resulted in a close election where Democrat Joe Biden was pushed across the finish line by large majorities of […]
Opposition Spokesperson on Land and Housing, Sophia Frazer-Binns, says the Government must rescind the Ministerial order which overrides the decision of the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) not to grant mining/quarrying...
Taking Up Arms
A military operation has been launched by Morocco in the buffer zone of Guerguerat near Mauritania, as announced Friday.
The North African nation also denounced \"the provocations of the Polisario\" in Western Sahara — once a colony of Spain with a still undefined status. Classified as a \"non-autonomous territory\" by the United Nations (UN).
The aim of the ongoing operation is to \"put an end to the blockade situation\" and \"restore free civil and commercial movement\" on the road leading to Mauritania — whose existence is denounced by the Sahrawi independence fighters and which Rabat considers essential for its trade with sub-Saharan Africa.
For about three weeks, local sources claim militias of some 70 armed men have been \"attacking truckers, banning traffic and racketeering.\"
All this in spite of UN settlement efforts — as the organisation-led negotiations involving Morocco, the Polisario, Algeria and Mauritania have been suspended for several months.
Polisario in response has stated its Sahrawi troops will retaliate in self-defence in light of what it perceives as Morocco being \"aggressive\" and liquidating the 1991 cease-fire.
Background
The region of Guerguerat has already been at the centre of strong tensions between the Polisario and Morocco, particularly in early 2017. Morocco controls more than two-thirds of this vast desert territory in its western part, along the Atlantic Ocean and has seen friction for decades with the pro-independence Polisario Front supported by Algeria.
[New Times] The prosecution on Friday, November 6, requested Nyarugenge Intermediate Court to jail former Prime Minister Pierre Damien Habumuremyi for five years and slap him a fine of Rwf892.2 million for the crime of issuing a bounced cheque.
Western Bureau: HANOVER CUSTOS Dr David Stair is expressing disgust with the condition of the roadways in Hanover and across the island in general, saying that the state of disrepair is quite troubling. “Let’s face it. We live in a tropical...
