– Rollout to begin in schools soon

LAST weekend, the Ministry of Health commenced the administration of COVID-19 vaccines for children between the ages of 5 and 11, and a total of 153 children were inoculated.

Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, revealed this on Monday during his COVID-19 update, where he stated that the exercise that began on Saturday was good.

He said: “I think we had a very good exercise; we were able to vaccinate 153 children between the ages of 5 and 11.”

The Minister added that while that happened, they also administered other vaccines as some parents who accompanied children were interested in receiving their booster doses. As such, another 51 doses were given.

Meanwhile, Dr. Anthony indicated that the rollout is set to continue, even as it was mentioned that school vaccination drives are expected to commence soon.

He added that officials at the health ministry have been in talks with the Ministry of Education as there is a joint committee between the two committees.

“The Ministry of Education would have sent out consent forms to the parents, and they have been able to collect a lot of those responses,” he revealed.

As a result, the health minister added that, in the schools with a higher percentage of positive responses, the ministry would go into those schools and start the administration of vaccines.

Against this backdrop, he noted that as of this week, the ministry would begin the same in Regions Six, Five, Three, and Two.

Vaccines have already been allocated to these regions, and persons in the regions have already been trained to administer them.

Further, the Minister said that in the following week, the rollout would commence in the other regions.