Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh is urg­ing the pub­lic, par­tic­u­lar­ly peo­ple fre­quent­ing and liv­ing in forest­ed ar­eas to take the nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions to pro­tect them­selves against in­fec­tions from malar­ia.

In a voice note from the Min­istry of Health on Thurs­day, Deyals­ingh said there were five cas­es of malar­ia which were iden­ti­fied as be­ing from a "well-de­fined ge­o­graph­ic area in South Trinidad."

He added that these cas­es were dis­cov­ered on March 27 and vec­tor con­trol meth­ods were rolled out, not­ing screen­ing showed that all those af­fect­ed were dis­charged from the hos­pi­tal.