A pharmacist attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) was the first of dozens of frontline healthcare workers who were inoculated with the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine yesterday, almost one year after the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Guyana.
The vaccination drive came one day after the Government of Barbados donated 3,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Guyana. Approximately 1,500 healthcare workers are expected to be vaccinated with the double-dose vaccine in the coming days. Their second dose will be administered in eight to twelve weeks. Director of Medical and Professional Services Dr Fawcett Jeffrey said there are around 300 frontline healthcare workers attached to the GPH and the infectious diseases hospital and by the end of the day they should have all received their first dose of the vaccine.