GUYANA has adequate COVID-19 vaccines to continue its immunisation exercise to address the spread of the deadly disease, according to Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony.

Dr. Anthony, during Tuesday’s edition of the COVID-19 update, said there were enough vaccines to fully immunise citizens.

He said that the country would normally get vaccines through COVAX because Guyana is one of the COVAX AMC (Advance Market Commitment) countries.

“Bilaterally, we have also received vaccine donations from the US, Spain and some other countries which have given us vaccines, plus we went out and buy vaccines and, in this case, we have been able to purchase Sinopharm and Sputnik vaccines,” Minister Anthony said.

The government has also been offered additional vaccines by other countries.

“More recently, we have had a lot of countries offering to donate vaccines to us, but they had short expiry dates… we did not accept those donations because we had adequate supplies,” Dr. Anthony said.

In January 2021, Guyana received its first batch of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines via the partnership with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) the Vaccine Alliance, the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).