[UPDATED] Trinidad and Tobago gets second batch of Covax covid19 vaccines
Photo courtesy Ministry of Health.
The second shipment of vaccines from the Covax facility has arrived in Trinidad and Tobago. This tranche, which consists of 33,600 doses, arrived at 11.59 am on Monday.
In a post on its Facebook page, the Health Ministry showed Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh and Pan-American Health Organization representative Dr Erica Wheeler on the tarmac with the shipment.
TT received its first batch of 33,600 doses on March 30 and had previously got 2,000 doses from Barbados and 40,000 from India.
A release from the ministry on Thursday said This second delivery of vaccines from the Covax facility and the remaining doses of vaccines donated by the Government of India will now be held to guarantee the second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine for those who received the first dose.
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The 50 year old had already lost her father to the virus during a deadly first wave of the pandemic last year – and Dos Anjos was fighting for her life as oxygen supplies ran out and the healthcare system collapsed all around her.
While she narrowly survived, her family’s struggle is far from over, as her 41-year-old brother also contracted the disease and saw his oxygen saturation levels plunge to 80 percent in April, the deadliest month in Brazil since the pandemic began.
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Cuba s push for coronavirus vaccine sovereignty
The Conversation
07 May 2021, 22:42 GMT+10
This is a transcript of episode 14 of The Conversation Weekly podcast Cuba s race for a coronavirus vaccine + making life s big decisions . In this episode, how Cuba is pushing ahead with developing its own coronavirus vaccines - and could be nearing vaccine sovereignty . And we hear from a researcher about what he learned from asking hundreds of people about the biggest decisions of their lives.
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Gemma Ware: Hello and welcome to The Conversation Weekly.
Dan Merino: This week, how Cuba is pushing ahead with the development of its own coronavirus vaccines, and could be nearing vaccine sovereignty.