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Government acknowledges that many more vaccine doses will be required Spread the love By Orville Williams The government has acknowledged that closer to 100,000 vaccine doses will be required to properly inoculate the population, rather than the 20,000 already secured through the COVAX facility, co-led by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO) announced this week, that countries in the Caribbean have been notified of their estimated dose allocation for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The agency also noted that some countries could start receiving said allocations “from the second half of February, through the second quarter of 2021.” Antigua and Barbuda is already down for 20,000 vaccine doses, with payment already made several months ago. However, that will prove a mere ‘drop in the bucket’, as far as thorough inoculation is concerned.

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