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The figure below shows the timeline of the action we took.

OUR WORLD-CLASS COVID-19

PUBLIC HEALTH PROTECTION, VIRUS CONTAINMENT,
SOCIAL SUPPORT AND FISCAL STIMULUS PROGRAMME

We moved with precision, always following the equipment, pharmaceuticals, PPE, physical
Our World-Class Covid-19 Public Health lives will be saved in the future if and when we advice of the health professionals, and within a facilities and personnel required to contain it.
Protection and Virus Containment, Social Support are returned to Government. matter of just over 2 months, to keep our citizens Even in face of constant threats of legal action
and Fiscal Stimulus Programme safe and the save lives, we had closed our borders from the other side, we have not flinched or
The key is the speed at which we moved, unlike and locked down and prohibited all non-essential hesitated in our duty to keep our people safe.
As international commentators have pointed out, developed countries that waited until their health activities. And so, while the virus raged outside
no matter how small or under resourced you are care systems were overwhelmed. our shores with over 16 million cases and 650,000
as a country, if you act quickly in accordance with deaths of loved ones from the virus worldwide, as
expert medical advice, that gives you of July 30th, with hospitals overseas filled to
considerable control over a pandemic. capacity and mass funerals and burials taking
place in other countries, we in Trinidad and
The basic approach to a pandemic is not complex Tobago have managed to contain the number of
or new. Testing, tracing and isolation of infected deaths due Covid-19 to just 8 since April 2020,
persons or persons who have come into contact tragic as these 8 deaths are.
with infected persons are the only sensible ways
to deal with a dangerous infectious disease. We have managed Covid-19 in an exemplary Compare this to the USA, where over 4.6 million
manner by observing strict quarantine, health people have been infected and 150,000 people
That is what your PNM Government did. And and isolation protocols, sanitization procedures, have died from Covid-19 so far, which is 1 person
many lives have been saved because of our and restrictions on activities that are most likely in every 70 persons in the USA infected, with no
proactive response to Covid-19 and many more to lead to a resurgence and spread of the virus, sign that the spread of the virus is slowing down
and by ensuring that we have all of the funding, in that country. Or to Brazil, with 2.6 million

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