A health official said on Thursday the well-publicised declining effectiveness of vaccines for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was one of the reasons health authorities in Barbados started to administer booster shots from Tuesday. Co-coordinator of the National COVID-19 Vaccination Programme, Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand, said this might be a possible link to the “breakthrough” cases that frontline medical personnel were seeing in the isolation facilities around the island. “We have found …
Shut-ins will be prioritised to receive the one-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines that recently arrived as a gift from the government and people of the Republic of Guyana. The roll out of the 7 000 doses will begin from as early as next weekend, said Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand, one of the Coordinators of the National Vaccination Programme for COVID-19. She explained that the mobile medical unit, led by private …