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By Emmanuel Joseph
After two years of administering the COVID-19 National Vaccination Programme, Government’s Immunisation Unit is about to cease operations and one of the coordinators has lamented that not enough was done to counter misinformation about the vaccines in the early stages.
Joint coordinators of the programme Major David Clarke and retired senior medical officer of health Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand confirmed
Vaccinations for children between five and 11 have been slow, says one of the coordinators of the National Vaccination Programme, Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand. She gave that update yesterday, about two months after Barbados began administering doses of the paediatric Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages five to 11. “We only have the children’s vaccine which will be out soon but things have been slow,” she said. She also said uptake …
More than 6 000 Barbadians who worked “on the frontlines” during the past two years of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are set to receive BB $500 each from the government of Barbados. Prime Minister Mia Mottley said on Thursday the selfless contributions of the scores who worked “on the frontlines” to keep the people of the island safe during the height of the pandemic will be rewarded. She was speaking …
Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand says she is disappointed that more young people are not being vaccinated. The joint coordinator of the National Vaccination Programme said numbers, particularly among the 12 to 15 age group, continue to fall, much to her dismay. “There has not been a major increase. In fact, there’s a real slowdown in the uptake. I don’t know if people are out shopping for back to school or what, …