Grenada’s Minister of Tourism Clarice Modeste was among hundreds of tourism, hospitality and other frontline workers who received their first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Monday.
She said the turnout was a sign of “the start of a rebirth of the sector that affords a livelihood to hundreds”.
Modeste, who is a medical doctor by profession, said she was confident the vaccine “will not only assist in resuming operations for the tourism sector but other sectors that are either directly or indirectly linked to tourism”.
Grenada’s national vaccination process will be conducted on a first-come, first-serve basis and will run until February 26th. The current targeted frontline workers receiving the vaccine are: law enforcement officers such as police, customs, and immigration; port/dock workers; airport workers; hotel employees and certified taxi operators.
