RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says the Min­istry of Health is care­ful­ly mon­i­tor­ing un­usu­al res­pi­ra­to­ry ill­ness­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go amid in­ter­na­tion­al con­cern over a clus­ter of han­tavirus cas­es linked to a cruise ship bound for the Ca­nary Is­lands.

In a Min­istry fact sheet is­sued this week, the min­istry said there were cur­rent­ly no con­firmed cas­es of han­tavirus in Trinidad and To­ba­go, but not­ed that sur­veil­lance re­mained ac­tive fol­low­ing re­ports from the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO).