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The Min­istry of Health is in­ves­ti­gat­ing an out­break of malar­ia cas­es in South Trinidad, where five cas­es have been con­firmed as of April 2, 2025. This in­cludes the pri­ma­ry source, mak­ing it the first record­ed malar­ia cas­es in the coun­try for the year.

Since Trinidad and To­ba­go is not en­dem­ic for malar­ia, most con­firmed cas­es are ei­ther im­port­ed or in­tro­duced. Be­tween 2015 and 2024, there were 153 con­firmed cas­es, av­er­ag­ing 15 per year.

The five cas­es in 2025 are clus­tered with­in a well-de­fined ge­o­graph­ic area, prompt­ing im­me­di­ate vec­tor con­trol mea­sures by the In­sect Vec­tor Con­trol Di­vi­sion (IVCD) fol­low­ing the first case on March 27, 2025.