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Minister of Health, Terrence Deyalsingh, announced during Monday’s virtual Press Conference (29th November 2021) that the Ministry of Health will soon be administering COVID-19 booster shots for all fully vaccinated individuals.
These booster shots will be made available to all persons, regardless of disease state or age. Minister Deyalsingh said further details will be released to the public in the coming days. He noted that, unlike previously, the booster shots programme can now be facilitated as vaccine equity is no longer an issue. As of Monday, there are 642,105 persons who are fully vaccinated in the country.
The Ministry has ordered a surplus of Sinopharm and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines in order to accommodate anyone who wants a booster shot. Trinidad and Tobago currently has a stock pile of 690,625 vaccine doses.
According to Minister Deyalsingh, “We engaged in scenario planning, including stock of vaccines in excess of what we will normally use.” Speaking about the new Omicron variant, he said it was time for the Ministry to revisit the vaccination programme in T&T. He added, “[We know] after two years this virus is going to be ever-evolving, especially when Variants of Concern start to rear their heads. If Trinidad and Tobago didn’t learn from past experiences and engage in scenario planning, [vaccine inequity] would not have been a good place to be.” 84,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccines from the COVAX facility and 150,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines from the Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP) have been received in T&T. The Minister explained, “We knew at some point in time that if we didn’t proactively do this…to protect the vaccinated population outside of the current programme, we were going to have to launch a booster programme.”
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