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In just over a month, peo­ple from all over the world will come to Trinidad and To­ba­go for the great­est show on earth. But if you’ve lit­er­al­ly got the Car­ni­val fever right now, well, it may be more than just the rum and Co­ca-Co­la to blame for that.

That’s right. It is flu sea­son here in T&T, and with so­cial dis­tanc­ing all but a rel­ic of the pan­dem­ic era, the Min­istry of Health is urg­ing the pop­u­la­tion to get vac­ci­nat­ed.

The warn­ing comes as flu cas­es surge in the Unit­ed States and doc­tor vis­its there spike to their high­est lev­els since 1997.