Grenada received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines and Health Minister Nickolas Steele said hundreds of frontline workers in the health and tourism sectors and law enforcement personnel were expected to get the Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs next week.
Although Grenada is scheduled to receive 45,600 COVID-19 vaccines under the World Health Organisation (WHO)-led COVAX Facility, with delivery estimated to begin later this month, the country on Wednesday got 1 000 doses of the vaccine which was part of a shared gift negotiated with the government of India by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.
Steele said a vaccination programme would be rolled out in an orderly fashion, with frontline workers in health getting it first, followed by other essential workers, then people with underlying medical conditions and those over the age of 65.
