Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony yesterday announced that the government has purchased some 100,000 doses of the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine.
This announcement was made during the Minister’s daily COVID-19 update. “We have purchased from Sinopharm 100,000, doses of the Sinopharm vaccine”, he said. Sinopharm has been approved by the World Health Organisation. China had donated 20,000 of these vaccines to Guyana early on in the inoculation programme. They were administered to the elderly and health care workers. Two doses have to be applied per person.
Anthony said that the vaccines cost approximately US$15 per dose.
