COVID-19 Vaccine Blitz to Run for the Next 7 Days
The Ministry of Health and Wellness will be resuming its island-wide vaccination blitz operation over the next seven days to administer the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine to all Jamaicans 18 years and older. The week-long vaccination focus looks to target some 150,000 people for their first dose of the vaccine.
This significant exercise aims to vaccinate a large percentage of the population. Dr. Tufton is urging Jamaicans not to hesitate but to take advantage of the vaccination blitz operation. He says persons will be permitted to go to the centers, despite the curfew restrictions. And private physicians will be used in the administering of vaccines
for the first time.
So far 127, 907 people have been fully vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine. And a total of 769 sports personnel have been inoculated with the Johnson & Johnson single-shot vaccine.
Meanwhile, the Director of Family Health Services at the Health Ministry, Dr. Melody Ennis, says the ministry has received 249 reports of adverse effects after persons took the COVID-19 vaccine including 11 deaths.
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