The rollout of the Guyana Government’s first vaccination programme for children aged five to eleven has been deemed a success.
The exercise, hosted on Saturday last, saw 153 children taking the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
“I think we had a very good exercise we were able to vaccinate 153 children between the ages of five and 11. We also did other vaccination because the parents who accompany the children, some of them got booster doses, and so we did another 51 doses in addition to the specific age group of 5-11,” the Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony said during today’s COVID-19 update.
Dr. Anthony said that his ministry is collaborating with the Ministry of Education to roll-out vaccination in other regions across the country.
“The Ministry of Education would have sent out consent forms to the parents and they have been able to collect a lot of those responses, so the schools where we have a higher percentage of response that is positive, we are going to go into those schools and start vaccination.”
This week, the ministries will be taking teams to Regions Two, Three, Five and Six to vaccinate children within the 5-11 age cohort.
The health minister said vaccines have already been allocated to the regions, and health care workers are trained to administer them properly.
Apart from the 5-11 age group, the ministry has begun administering booster doses to the adolescent (12 -17 years) population.
