A protocol for the 80,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines scheduled to arrive here from India this week will see remaining frontline workers being inoculated and the pension collection data bank of the National Insurance Scheme and the Ministry of Social Protection, among other measures being used to identify persons in high risk groups
Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony yesterday told Stabroek News that with nearly all of the 3,000 vaccines donated by Barbados already administered to healthcare front line workers, 3,000 doses from the imminent shipment will be reserved to complete their double-dose treatment.
However, he explained that with research revealing that the efficacy levels increase when the second jab is taken about four weeks after the first dose, the Ministry of Health is mulling using this interval.
