Health authorities are still to decide whether they will withhold vaccines from the initial set to be used as a second dose for frontline workers or to inoculate another 1500 with the first shot.
This was stated by Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, during his daily COVID-19 update. Since the minister had mentioned on Tuesday that the initial tranche of 3,000 vaccines received from Barbados could possibly be exhausted, Stabroek News during the update asked whether 1,500 doses would be kept to be used as the second dose.
Anthony responded that upon receiving the 3,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Barbados the authorities were aware that there were two options available in terms of administering the doses.