Vaccination of children to get underway

Government officials, representatives of the US Embassy and children at the airport for the arrival of the Pfizer vaccines. (Ministry of Education photo)

A total of 146,250 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Guyana yesterday and around 70,000 children are to be inoculated with it.

The vaccine which was recently given full regulatory approval by the United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA), arrived yesterday afternoon at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri and comes as a donation from Washington.

A release from the US Embassy here noted that the Pfizer vaccine is the only vaccine approved for use in children as young as 12 years old.