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COVID vaccines under tight security
Article by April 15, 2021
Barbados’ supplies of COVID-19 vaccines are kept under tight security and the chances of them being stolen or misdirected are extremely low.
That was the assurance of Major David Clarke, co-coordinator of the island’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. He told COVID Weekly that security around the vaccines is significant and maintained on a 24-hour basis.
The Barbados Defence Force (BDF) soldier who heads the programme along with Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand, made the comments in a recent interview. He was speaking against a backdrop of a report last month where several doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines went missing from a vaccination site at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in the parish of St James in Jamaica.
February 16, 2021
Some of the island’s senior citizens took to vaccination centres, including the David Thompson Health & Social Services Complex on Monday to get the COVID-19 jab.
And according to Senior Health Sister at the St John facility, Kim Maughn, the process went well.
“Quite a few seniors have taken us up on the offer today to be immunized. We are expecting about 35 persons today and so far everything is going smoothly,” she told a
Barbados TODAY news team.
Barbados has one of the highest proportions of older people, the group deemed most at risk from COVID-19. The majority of the island’s 25 COVID-related deaths have been elderly people with chronic diseases.
Nurses appear set to step up action
Article by February 10, 2021
The first phase of the COVID-19 vaccination drive could very well begin without the help of polyclinic nurses who on Tuesday called in sick and may stay away from work in the coming days, with the senator who leads scores of them as a trade unionist and the nation’s largest public sector union at odds over the move.
General Secretary of the Unity Workers’ Union, Senator Caswell Franklyn, confirmed a sickout across polyclinics was “just the beginning” of action that would be escalated if authorities continue to delay providing hazard pay and protective equipment for the nurses.
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