CARICOM is “deeply concerned” and dissatisfied with the way that the Community has been squeezed out of access to COVID-19 vaccines.
“We know that there is a world shortage of vaccines but mechanisms put in place to allow countries like us to have access to vaccines have not been working…the end results is at the time we have only had one gift [from India] of 170,000 vaccines within our region,” Trinidadian Prime Minister Keith Rowley told the closing Press Conference yesterday of the virtual Thirty-Second Inter-Sessional Meeting of CARICOM Heads.
A communique released last evening added a specific call for equitable access to vaccines in order to curb the impact of the pandemic, to protect citizens and bolster the economy.
