Approximately 7,000 persons were inoculated against COVID-19 on Monday, increasing the total number of persons receiving first and second doses in the country.
This disclosure was made by Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony yesterday during his COVID-19 update where he stated that the vaccination teams across the country did a good job and the highest numbers were reported on Monday.
“For first dose now we’re at 169,981… which accounts for 34.9 per cent of our adult population”, he informed. As it relates to second doses he noted that a total of 34,317 persons have received their second shot and can be considered fully immunised.
The number of persons fully vaccinated to date accounts for some 7 per cent of the country’s adult population and approximately 20.1 per cent of the persons who received first doses. “That’s really a good number because more people now are fully immunised and if we look at it as the percentage of persons who received their first dose and now took their second dose that would be 20.1 percent,” Anthony noted.
Meanwhile, the minister stated that even though they saw an increase in terms of persons coming out to receive both doses of the vaccine, they are still hopeful that everyone who received a first dose and are eligible for their second dose comes forward.
During the update, Anthony said, “We would have had a lot of outreaches in different communities and don’t wait until we come back to your community. If there is a neighbouring site that is doing vaccination, come to it so that you can get your second dose.”
To this end he noted that authorities do not want persons to delay getting their second dose and urged persons who are unable to go to the sites on the second appointment date on their vaccination cards, to go, “a little bit before or a little bit after.”
“We have noticed that people who are fully immunised they do much better, we have not seen any cases of infection with people who have been fully immunised. We have not seen people getting hospitalised nor have we had anyone dying who are fully immunised,” he said.
