More than 52,000 persons in Guyana have been inoculated with their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine with about 60 already receiving their second dose, according to Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony.
During an update on Friday, Anthony noted that the COVID-19 vaccination programme has been going quite well, especially over the preceding four days, with an average of 4,500 persons getting vaccinated daily. He disclosed that when mass vaccination started only around 2,000 persons were being vaccinated per day countrywide. However, over the past days there has been a big improvement in the numbers.
Anthony further disclosed that as of Thursday approximately 52,554 persons had received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Three COVID-19 vaccines are currently available in Guyana—AstraZeneca, China’s Sinopharm and Russia’s Sputnik V. All are double dose vaccines.
