As part of the ongoing campaign to immunise persons 60 years and older against COVID-19, the Ministry of Health recently began vaccinating residents of several elderly homes in and around the city.
Gloria Ramcharan, the matron of the New Nazareth Home of St. Vincent de Paul, told Stabroek News that seven residents of the home on Friday received their first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine from a team from the Ministry of Health.
While the home houses nine residents, only seven persons were vaccinated, as two declined the opportunity.