Trinidad takes top spot globally for COVID-19 deaths per million people

(Trinidad Guardian) On Thursday, Trinidad and Tobago took the grim title of recording the highest daily confirmed COVID19 deaths per million people. According to data analysis by Our World In Data, this calculation used data from John Hopkins University CSSE COVID19 data.

Trinidad and Tobago recorded 31 deaths on Thursday, marking the deadliest day for the pandemic to date. Looking at this data standardized, Trinidad and Tobago recorded 22.09 deaths per million people, surpassing many European countries amid their worst wave of the pandemic.

When looking at cases, the country had the seventh most confirmed COVID-19 infections per million people on Thursday in the entire world, with mainly European countries eclipsing Trinidad and Tobago’s 444.64. Our Caribbean neighbour, Dominica, takes the top spot, with a whopping 2,452.47 COVID-19 cases per million people. It is important to note that these figures change daily. In addition, due to limited testing and challenges in the attribution of the cause of death, confirmed deaths can be lower than the actual number of deaths in many countries. Similarly, limited testing also results in the number of confirmed cases being lower than the true number of infectious.