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Vaccination blues: how T&T’s ‘parallel information system’ is failing its most vulnerable people
“[…] ‘No, no. Everybody going. My friend took her mother and they give him a vaccine one time and he young’… ‘I just take a chance when they set up in the paddock in the Savanna and it was around 5 in the afternoon and they just take my whole family. They have extra then and they have to use it up.’
Deyalsingh: Vaccine acceptance high on day one as 1053 get covid19 jabs
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FIRST DOSE: THA Secretary for Health, Wellness and Family Development Tracy Davidson-Celestine receives her covid19 vaccine at the Bacolet Health Centre in Tobago on Tuesday. - DAVID REID
PRESIDENT Paula-Mae Weekes, her mother Phyllis Weekes, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh and Secretary for Health, Wellness and Family Development Tracy Davidson-Celestine were among the 1053 people who received the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine on Tuesday.
At the St Joseph Enhanced Health Centre shortly before being inoculated, Deyalsingh said the Government will increase the sites in the coming weeks to allow for more than 1000 daily doses to be administered.
No glitches so far in Freeport covid19 vaccinations
Wednesday 7 April 2021
Covid19 vaccines will be given by on an appointment only basis to the elderly at Freeport Health Centre. Photo by Lincoln Holder
There has been another seamless start to a day of the administration of covid19 vaccines in central Trinidad.
Newsday visited the Freeport Health Centre on Wednesday morning to get a firsthand look at the process.
From 6 am, patients with appointments began trickling in. Those without appointments were guided to make the necessary arrangements by phone and return on the given date.
Kumar Lall said, I was unsure of the process and came to enquire about it. I was told I needed to make an appointment. The staff was friendly and assisted me with all my questions and concerns.
Over 1,000 pre-registered as vaccinations begin in Tobago
Tracy Davidson-Celestine -
More than 1000 Tobagonians have pre-registered to receive the first doses of 3,000 covid19 vaccines on Tuesday, according to THA Secretary of Health, Wellness and Family Development Tracy Davidson-Celestine.
Last Wednesday, TT received 33,600 doses of AztraZeneca vaccines in the first tranche from the World Health Organization’s Covax facility. Of that number, Tobago got 3,000 doses on Thursday, which is expected to vaccinate an estimated 1,500 people. Among those to be vaccinated are essential or frontline workers along with people with chronic illnesses.
Speaking with Newsday on Monday, Davidson-Celestine said all systems were in place for the roll-out which was expected to begin on Tuesday at the Scarborough and Canaan health centres.