Over 200 children were yesterday administered their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine as the adolescent COVID-19 inoculation programme was officially launched.
The programme which was launched at Saint Stanislaus College in Brickdam, Georgetown, as a collaborative effort between the ministries of Health and Education, saw scores of teens and their parents coming out to be a part of that first set of children to be vaccinated.
Education Minister, Priya Manickchand, confirmed in a post on social media yesterday that a total of 213 children were inoculated. During the launching of the programme, she said it brings the country’s children one step closer to being able to attend school again safely.