Announcing that he will this week be taking his COVID-19 vaccine to help boost public confidence in the immunization process, Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday said that government is diligently working to source at least 500,000 complete doses to cover Guyana’s adult population and urged those eligible to take their shots.
Anthony told Stabroek News that although government has to and is willing to pay for most of the doses, the global demand has seen this country having to source vaccines from a number of different countries.
Only recently, he said government moved to purchase some 200,000 doses of the Russian-developed Sputnik 5 vaccine from Moscow.