Barbados Today May 6, 2021
Last weekend’s pilot scheme where Barbadians over the age of 50 were able to book appointments for their COVID-19 vaccines online via an appointment portal has been declared a success.
Co-Coordinator of the National Vaccination Campaign, Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand, told COVID Weekly, “We had allocated 300 vaccines for two sites on Saturday, April 24, and 500 for one site on Sunday, April 25, and the portal allocated these appointments in one day. So we had to close the pilot, which was supposed to run for three days (Wednesday, April 21 to Friday, April 23), after just one day.”
The pilot appointment system was set up for the administration of the first doses of the Oxford- AstraZeneca vaccine.
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The coordinator of the national vaccination campaign, doctor Valeriu Gheorghita, says that the number of new vaccination locations for Moderna will increase by 12 starting on Tuesday, up to 86, and from April 13 another 144 will become available for Pfizer. As of today, April 6, 12 new vaccination locations for Moderna have been operationalized, so that we are talking now about approximately 86 vaccination centres for Moderna, which cumulates a total of 103 vaccination flows. Also, from April 13, another 144 new vaccination locations will become operational, with Pfizer as the available vaccine, Valeriu Gheorghita told a press conference at the Victoria Palace on Tuesday.
The head of the CNCAV (National Coordinating Committee for Vaccination Activites Against COVID-19) also specified that starting on Wednesday, April 7, the vaccination capacity will increase on each flow from 60 people to 90 people in all vaccination centres where the vaccine is distributed