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Vaccination with WHO Approved Sinopharm COVID-19 Vaccine Begins on Friday 21 May, 2021
Port of Spain, 19 May 2021: Members of the public are advised that the national COVID-19 vaccination rollout will continue from
Friday 21 May, 2021.
50,000 eligible persons will be vaccinated with the World Health Organisation (WHO) approved Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, which was manufactured by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products Co. Limited. This vaccine is a 2 shot vaccine given 3 to 4 weeks apart. Globally, 65 million doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine have already been administered through various emergency use programmes.
All persons who fall within the Phase 1 of the national COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment Plan, as indicated below, are eligible to receive the vaccine at this time:
Continuation of the National COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Port of Spain, 1 May 2021: Members of the public are advised that the national COVID-19 vaccination rollout will continue on Monday 3
rd May 2021.
All persons who fall within the Phase 1 of the national COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment Plan, as indicated below, are
eligible to receive the vaccine,:
healthcare workers
persons between 60 and 18 years of age with non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
The public is reminded that the following groups of persons should
not take the COVID-19 vaccine at this time:
Pregnant and breastfeeding women
People with a history of severe reactions to a component in the vaccine
Deyalsingh: 36,000 senior citizens vaccinated to date
Wednesday 28 April 2021
In this file photo, senior citizens line up at the Diego Martin Health Centre to register for dates to receive covid19 vaccines. Photo by Vidya Thurab
HEALTH Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has said of the 41,000-plus people to receive the covid19 vaccine in Trinidad and Tobago, around 36,000 were those 60 and older.
He was speaking at the Health Ministry’s virtual press conference on Wednesday morning.
The first group of people to receive the vaccine was frontline healthcare workers, followed by those over 60 with non-communicable diseases (NCDs), then those without. Eligibility was also then extended to MPs and their spouses, frontline national security personnel, members of the media and other groups.
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Sports Minister Shamfa Cudjoe receives the covid19 vaccine at the Diego Marrtin Health Centre on Tuesday. - Shamfa Cudjoe
Minister of Sport and Community Development and Tobago West MP Shamfa Cudjoe received her first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca covid19 vaccine on Tuesday.
Speaking with Newsday, Cudjoe said that although she was “somewhat sceptical” about taking the vaccine, she decided it was a necessary move in the fight against the covid19 pandemic.
But she admitted, “In all honesty, I was somewhat sceptical.”
She said she came from a family where they avoided taking mediction and depended heavily on herbs and natural remedies for healing.