Last Updated on May 5, 2021, 6:52 AM AST by Anthony Morris
Basseterre: Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris, who led the country on Monday 22 February by being among the first to take the first dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, took his second dose of vaccine during the Sylvia Garnette on Tuesday 4 May Primary Health Care Facility in Tabernacle.
“On Tuesday at 14:00 I received the Tabernacle Health Center for my vaccine, second dose, with safety heads,” Prime Minister Harris said in a brief statement.
The statement comes on the heels of a successful Covid-19 vaccination session at the Sylvia Garnette Primary Health Care Facility in Tabernacle on Saturday 1 May where Dr Harris visited, after presenting the latest issue of Prime Minister’s Health Walk this morning, to encourage who are vaccinated.
The walk that took Bellevue contestants to the Ottley’s hardcourts saw a number of contestants travel to Tabernacle to take their first dose of the vaccine, where Prime Minister congratulated them for doing the right thing.
“I want to encourage as many people as possible to go ahead and take the vaccine to protect themselves, protect their families, protect their co-workers, protect their community and help us get the country back to work by being vaccinated,” observed Prime Minister Harris.
The vaccination on Saturday 1 May in the Sylvia Garnette Primary Health Care Facility was facilitated by nurse Norine Gabriel, who was assisted by nurse Vivien Greene-Simon.
In the meantime, Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris on Friday 30 April at the groundbreaking ceremony of Royal Plaza II in the Royal St. Kitts Hotel in Frigate Bay, where he thanked owners of the property for the investment in St. Kitts and Nevis because of its success in containing the Covid-19 pandemic, he expressed solidarity with the government and the people of India as the country experienced an increase in Covid-19 infections and deaths.
“We have seen around the world that Covid-19 is still the most important challenge facing people as well as countries,” Dr Harris said. “At this stage, we want to express solidarity with the government and the people of India, because we see in the country that the Covid-19 has taken a life of its own and this is creating reason for significant alarm and setback.”
In the Vaccine Diplomacy of the Indian Government, St. Kitts and Nevis received 20,000 doses of Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines from the Government of India on Monday, March 1st. The vaccines are manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, which is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, in collaboration with AstraZeneca.
The 20,000 doses of vaccine that arrived through the RLB International Airport were part of a larger group of approximately 570,000 doses donated by the Government of India to the CARICOM region, where 125,000 went to the OECS countries. Antigua and Barbuda and St. Vincent and the Grenadines each received 40,000 doses, and St. Lucia 25,000.
“India for us will and will always be a very special country,” Prime Minister Harris said during the groundbreaking ceremony. ‘And in the context of Covid-19, India has led the rest of the developed world in terms of its generosity to share vaccines produced on the ground with the rest of the community. We hope the countries that are inventive enough to support it with fans, hospital beds, etc. that they do it quickly. ”
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