Police Officer On Vacation Leave Tests Positive For COVID 19

Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith, has confirmed that an officer of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) has tested Positive for the COVID-19 virus, and is now being treated at the Couva Hospital. According to the TTPS, the officer, who is on vacation, travelled to New York on February 26th, 2020, and returned to Trinidad on March 18th, 2020. The officer complained of feeling unwell and was taken to see a doctor on March 19th. He later complained of body pains and was taken to the health facility and then by ambulance to the San Fernando General Hospital. The officer was transferred to the Couva Hospital where he received confirmation that he tested Positive for the COVID-19 virus. A female friend who met him at the airport, checked into the Caura Hospital where she was tested and is awaiting the results. The TTPS says the brother of the officer has now placed himself into self-quarantine. The TTPS assures that at no time did the police officer return to the police station where he was last attached, as he is still on vacation leave. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Trinidad and Tobago now stands at 60.