The Min­istry of Health has con­firmed two ad­di­tion­al cas­es of malar­ia in the same ge­o­graph­ic lo­ca­tion in South Trinidad where five cas­es were pre­vi­ous­ly re­port­ed. This brings the to­tal num­ber of con­firmed malar­ia cas­es for 2025 to sev­en.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Min­istry of Health, the new­ly iden­ti­fied cas­es were de­tect­ed through on­go­ing en­hanced sur­veil­lance ef­forts, led by the In­sect Vec­tor Con­trol Di­vi­sion (IVCD). These ac­tiv­i­ties are part of the Min­istry’s broad­er pro­to­cols for the pre­ven­tion and con­trol of malar­ia.

The Min­istry stat­ed that malar­ia is not en­dem­ic to Trinidad and To­ba­go. Be­tween 2015 and 2024, there were 153 con­firmed cas­es na­tion­wide—an av­er­age of 15 cas­es per year—most of which were im­port­ed or in­tro­duced.