Population told to use latest Pfizer doses or TT will face losing further US donations

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Population told to use latest Pfizer doses or TT will face losing further US donations

The population has been told that failure to use the 75,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines which arrived from the United States on Thursday, could jeopardise the country’s efforts to receive more.

Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh, during Saturday’s media briefing, said the gift of vaccines from the US came with a proviso.

He said: “We recently had to dump 260,000 of the previously gifted vaccines. If we don’t use the 75,000 or show an appetite to use all or significant portion of these, we would be jeopardising our ability to receive any more vaccines, especially the second part of the tranche of 150,000.”

Deyalsingh said that vaccination rollout for the 12-18 age group would begin on March 14, as the ministry would be analysing why the uptake had been so low.

Deyalsingh said Tobago had asked for and received 1,200 doses as an initial shipment.

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