Police buildings in Trinidad shut down over COVID-19 scare

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jul 28, CMC – Trinidad's Police Commissioner, Gary Griffith, has ordered the closure of two police buildings including the main administrative building in the capital, amid reports that a person who had contracted the coronavirus (COVID-19) had been seen there.

A police statement said that there have been reports of an employee of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS)  “exhibiting flu-like symptoms at the workplace".

The statement added that the person has since been sent for testing and that the Riverside Plaza and the Police Administration building will remain closed for the rest of the day to facilitate sanitisation works.

Griffith has since urged people “to exercise sanitisation and social distancing practices when visiting police stations to conduct business”.

Meanwhile, the number of persons who have contracted the virus, climbed to 153 on Tuesday after the Ministry of Health said that five additional persons had tested positive for the virus on Monday.

It said three of the cases were imported from Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana and Vietnam.

Regarding the other two cases, one “is a primary contact of a recently positive COVID-19 case” while the other is “pending epidemiological investigation”.

Eight people have died since the first case was detected in March. 

Trinidad and Tobago's borders are still closed as a means of preventing the spread of the virus that has killed 654,000 people and infected 16.5 million others worldwide.

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