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Special lines are being set up for the elderly and those with chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to get COVID-19 vaccinations at three centres. Last night Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, in her address to the nation, said the move was an attempt to reach a vaccinated population of 70 per cent. “We are doing this because we are satisfied that we can boost the numbers and that we can get …
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Team members of Operation Seek And Save on the job, February 4, 2021. (Picture by Sandy Pitt.) Social Share
Operation Seek and Save was resumed for two additional days – today and tomorrow – as Government seeks to reach those households and communities that were missed in the first exercise.
The programme is a national initiative to assess the extent of households at risk from novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and dengue fever.
In a statement from the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus late this evening, lead coordinator of Operation Seek and Save, Dr Dion Greenidge, head of the Department of Management Studies at Cave Hill, where the data gathering system was designed, said the resumption of the operation will serve to get a more complete picture in relation to COVID-19 and dengue fever.
Despite warnings from clinicians, Barbados held on to a too-short quarantine and test protocol when its borders opened last summer. Now, a new surge in COVID cases and deaths begs retrospective policy questions.
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