Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony has said that increased calls by the public led to the government’s decision to extend the National COVID-19 Vaccination Pro-gramme to its entire adult population, although Guyana is yet to acquire enough COVID-19 vaccines to immunise everyone.
“We are trying to immunise as many persons as possible… We think it’s the appropriate time now because we have been getting a lot of calls from the public to reduce the age, so we have gone to 18 years and above. All the vaccines that we currently have in Guyana are being used in the adult population and if we are going to achieve herd immunity it means that we are going to have to get most of our adult population immunised and, in an effort to do so, we have lowered the age,” Anthony explained during a COVID-19 update on Friday.
The decision to extend the vaccination programme to persons 18 years and older was announced via Facebook on Thursday by Advisor to the Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy.
