Vaccinated visitors will be given priority when elderly homes re-open properly in the coming months, the Elderly Minister revealed on Tuesday, emphasising the importance of getting inoculated against COVID-19.
“It is extremely important that those people who visit these elderly people are vaccinated. I am making an emphasis that one should get vaccinated as soon as possible, so when we open and go back to normality, these people who have been vaccinated and 15 days have passed since their second dose will have the possibility to go back to normality before those who have not been yet vaccinated,” Minister for Senior Citizens and Active Ageing Michael Farrugia said on Tuesday.
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The COVID-19 vaccination programme at St Vincent de Paul home for the elderly is progressing ahead of schedule, Minister for Active Ageing Michael Farrugia said on Thursday.
Farrugia said all residents of the Luqa facility who had accepted to be vaccinated - some 880 - had been administered the first dose of the vaccine and administration of the second dose will start on Friday.
“Where initially we had thought we would have finished vaccinating residents of this home by the end of April, I am now happy to confirm we are ahead of schedule and the residents will have received both doses of the vaccine by the end of February,” Farrugia said.
Minister Shares that COVID-19 Vaccinations at St. Vincent de Paul Home are ‘Ahead of Schedule’
The current coronavirus vaccination programme at St. Vincent de Paul home for the elderly is advancing ahead of schedule, as Minister for Active Ageing Michael Farrugia shared.
Farrugia explained that all residents of the facility who accepted vaccination – about 880 – had been administered the first dose and this Friday, they will be administered the second dose too.
He continued,
‘Where initially we had thought we would have finished vaccinating residents of this home by the end of April, I am now happy to confirm we are ahead of schedule and the residents will have received both doses of the vaccine by the end of February’.