Vaccination with WHO Approved Sinopharm COVID-19 Vaccine Begins on Friday 21 May, 2021
Port of Spain, 19 May 2021: Members of the public are advised that the national COVID-19 vaccination rollout will continue from
Friday 21 May, 2021.
50,000 eligible persons will be vaccinated with the World Health Organisation (WHO) approved Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, which was manufactured by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products Co. Limited. This vaccine is a 2 shot vaccine given 3 to 4 weeks apart. Globally, 65 million doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine have already been administered through various emergency use programmes.
All persons who fall within the Phase 1 of the national COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment Plan, as indicated below, are eligible to receive the vaccine at this time:
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Continuation of the National COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Port of Spain, 1 May 2021: Members of the public are advised that the national COVID-19 vaccination rollout will continue on Monday 3
rd May 2021.
All persons who fall within the Phase 1 of the national COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment Plan, as indicated below, are
eligible to receive the vaccine,:
healthcare workers
persons between 60 and 18 years of age with non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
The public is reminded that the following groups of persons should
not take the COVID-19 vaccine at this time:
Pregnant and breastfeeding women
People with a history of severe reactions to a component in the vaccine
Health Ministry: No evidence linking covid19 vaccine, deaths
A vial of AstraZeneca vaccine. Photo by Ayanna Kinsale
Health Ministry principal medical officer Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards has said there is no evidence to suggest a relationship between two recent deaths and the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Speaking at the ministry’s media conference on Monday, Abdool-Richards said,
“There is no evidence to suggest a relationship between the covid19 vaccine that was given within a couple days and the deaths of these people.
She added, We don’t give any details about the situation of the deaths and the findings around that due to patient confidentiality and ethics that we follow. There have been claims of such a link in the case of a man in south Trinidad who was vaccinated and afterwards became paralysed and died. There has been similar speculation over Energy Minister Franklin Khan s being vaccinated last week and dying suddently on Saturday. Khan had a history of heart problems.
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