40,000 vaccines to arrive on island this weekend
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By Carlena Knight
Forty thousand vials of the AstraZeneca vaccine are scheduled to arrive in the country on Sunday evening, as the Ministry of Health looks to ramp up its vaccination programme.
Information Minister Melford Nicholas confirmed that development on Friday during the post-Cabinet Press Briefing, adding that 5,000 of those doses will be gifted to the people of Grenada.
“The decision was also taken that in lieu of the goodwill that was expressed to the Government of Antigua and Barbuda and its people by the government of Dominica, that we in turn have an obligation to lend a hand of assistance to our Caricom brothers and sisters in the island of Grenada.
Government acknowledges that many more vaccine doses will be required
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By Orville Williams
The government has acknowledged that closer to 100,000 vaccine doses will be required to properly inoculate the population, rather than the 20,000 already secured through the COVAX facility, co-led by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO) announced this week, that countries in the Caribbean have been notified of their estimated dose allocation for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The agency also noted that some countries could start receiving said allocations “from the second half of February, through the second quarter of 2021.”
Antigua and Barbuda is already down for 20,000 vaccine doses, with payment already made several months ago. However, that will prove a mere ‘drop in the bucket’, as far as thorough inoculation is concerned.
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