{"id":22656,"date":"2022-06-16T22:27:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T03:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=22656"},"modified":"2022-06-17T08:50:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T13:50:59","slug":"official-says-procurement-process-almost-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/official-says-procurement-process-almost-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Official says procurement process almost complete"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbados<\/p>\n

Co-coordinator of the National Vaccination Programme, Major David Clarke today revealed that plans were at an advanced stage to procure the vaccines.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can also say that we have been pursuing the vaccines for the five to 11s and so we are hoping to get some of those vaccines and once we get those vaccines we will also be rolling out the programme for the five to 11.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are presently working on it. It is at the paperwork stage so once the paperwork is completed and we are satisfied that what we are getting is exactly what we want then you\u2019ll hear it, but not too much longer,\u201d Major Clarke said this afternoon during a\u00a0Zoom<\/b><\/span>\u00a0meeting hosted by the Rotary Club of Barbados.<\/p>\n

Additionally, he said 56.7 per cent of children aged 12 to 18 have been vaccinated.<\/p>\n

He however, admitted that due to examinations vaccinations for that age group had been temporarily suspended to avoid any impact on the performance of those students.<\/p>\n

Major Clarke said while there was a lull in the number of persons coming forward to be vaccinated, boosters were still popular.<\/p>\n

He said around 71 per cent of the eligible population or 57 per cent of the overall population had so far been vaccinated.<\/p>\n

Major Clarke said that figure could be even higher as \u201cquite a number\u201d of Barbadians had been vaccinated overseas. He said those persons were not counted in the local numbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve done just over 50, 000 booster shots and probably around 2000 people who have had their second booster. The booster shots at present seem to be the most number of people coming into the system but we are still getting one or two first doses and that\u2019s going very slowly,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n

Major Clarke said AstraZeneca and Pfizer had been the two most popular vaccines in Barbados.<\/p>\n

He said the uptake for Sinopharm was \u201cvery small\u201d with only 5000 doses being administered. He said that particular vaccine was not recognized by either the United States or Canada. Similarly, only 600 people had opted to take the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.<\/p>\n

He said some countries also required that visitors be up to date with their booster shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some countries that if your vaccine is older than six months they ask you to get another booster, so if you go to a restaurant in Italy at present and your vaccine is older than six months they don\u2019t want to accept you to the restaurant. So what they are saying is you really need to have a booster every six months,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Major Clarke said they were currently awaiting permission to send booster certificates with a QR code.<\/p>\n

He said because of the large numbers of people who had contracted COVID-19 he believed the herd immunity factor \u201chas been a little better\u201d than people realize.<\/p>\n

He said the National Vaccination Programme was scheduled to end this year at which time it would be handed over to public health and the facilities would be closed.<\/p>\n

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Barbados Co-coordinator of the National Vaccination Programme, Major David Clarke today revealed that plans were at an advanced stage to procure the vaccines. \u201cI can also say that we have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":11315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[250],"tags":[129,138,139],"class_list":["post-22656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-articles","tag-barbados","tag-drugsmedicine","tag-healthcaremedical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Injection-drugs-bottle-ampoules-syringe-medical-health-Marco-Verch-Professional-Photographer-and-Speaker-flickr.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-5Tq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29193,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/guyana-rwanda-barbados-looking-at-procurement-mechanism-to-manufacture-vaccines-in-caribbean\/","url_meta":{"origin":22656,"position":0},"title":"Guyana\/Rwanda\/Barbados looking at \u2018procurement mechanism\u2019 to manufacture vaccines in Caribbean","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"August 3, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Caribbean As talks continue between Guyana, Rwanda and Barbados to manufacture vaccines and medicines, the President of the East African nation told Heads of Government of CARICOM on Wednesday that the next step in cementing the arrangement is to decide on a procurement mechanism that will be sustainable. 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