Rowley, WHO head: Equal access to covid19 vaccines critical Saturday 20 February 2021 Nurse Keisha Prevatt-Gomez receives the covid19 vaccine at the Couva Hospital and Multi-Training Facilty on February 17. PHOTO BY MARVIN HAMILTON - THE Prime Minister and World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus have said equity of access to covid19 vaccines is critical to bringing the pandemic under control. Dr Rowley and Ghebreyesus expressed this position in a joint opinion entitled – This is our best chance at defeating the pandemic – published on CNN's website on Friday. The opinion noted that nurse Keisha Prevatt-Gomez was the first frontline health worker to be vaccinated in Trinidad and Tobago this week. TT received 2,000 vaccines donated by Barbados out of a shipment of 100,000 sent to that country by the government of India.