T&T GUARDIAN – Health Min\u00adis\u00adter Ter\u00adrence Deyals\u00adingh says no cruise ships will be al\u00adlowed to berth in ei\u00adther Trinidad or To\u00adba\u00adgo for the rest of the cruise ship sea\u00adson.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speak\u00ading at a post-Cab\u00adi\u00adnet me\u00addia brief\u00ading on Thurs\u00adday, Deyals\u00adingh said the de\u00adci\u00adsion was tak\u00aden as the Gov\u00adern\u00adment steps up its ef\u00adforts to stop or de\u00adlay the coro\u00adn\u00adavirus (COVID-19) from reach\u00ading T&T’s shores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said ac\u00adcord\u00ading to the cruise ship sched\u00adule, there were five cruise ships sched\u00aduled to berth in Trinidad and sev\u00aden in To\u00adba\u00adgo be\u00adfore the end of the sea\u00adson. The cruise ship sea\u00adson runs from De\u00adcem\u00adber 12, 2019 to April 24, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deyals\u00adingh said the de\u00adci\u00adsion was tak\u00aden by Cab\u00adi\u00adnet note on Thurs\u00adday morn\u00ading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t feel that we need to take on that type of risk, we want to pre\u00adserve our health care sys\u00adtem, our sup\u00adplies and our test kits,\u201d Deyals\u00adingh said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said the ban will af\u00adfect trade and tourism but said the move is for the greater good to pro\u00adtect the health of T&T\u2019s 1.3 mil\u00adlion pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How\u00adev\u00ader, he said the Gov\u00adern\u00adment be\u00adlieves that the first COVID-19 case that shows up in the coun\u00adtry will be an im\u00adport\u00aded case and the Gov\u00adern\u00adment is do\u00ading all it can to pre\u00advent that sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion from hap\u00adpen\u00ading as long as pos\u00adsi\u00adble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
T&T GUARDIAN – Health Min\u00adis\u00adter Ter\u00adrence Deyals\u00adingh says no cruise ships will be al\u00adlowed to berth in ei\u00adther Trinidad or To\u00adba\u00adgo for the rest of the cruise ship sea\u00adson.\u00a0 Speak\u00ading at a post-Cab\u00adi\u00adnet me\u00addia brief\u00ading on Thurs\u00adday, Deyals\u00adingh said the de\u00adci\u00adsion was tak\u00aden as the Gov\u00adern\u00adment steps up its ef\u00adforts to stop or de\u00adlay the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-computers","category-regional-and-international-news"],"yoast_head":"\n