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Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor McKenzie
The Ministry of Health is aiming to inoculate 14,000 Jamaicans with the remaining batch of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine which expires Tuesday.
The ministry says preliminary reports show that 23,504 individuals received the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday.
This increased the number of persons vaccinated during the blitz campaign to more than 60,000.
The ministry says Jamaica has surpassed the 100,000 mark for persons inoculated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Appointment system resumes tomorrow
Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor McKenzie has said the Ministry of Health will resume its appointment system for the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday.
During its four-day inoculation blitz, which ends today, the ministry relaxed protocols around who can get vaccinated and its requirement for registration.
But Dr. Bisasor McKenzie said the health ministry will go back to focusing on the priority groups.
"Remember we have other vaccines that are not expiring, so we would have been using the COVAX batch before we got this batch and we would have stopped using that to start using this one; and so we have approximately 15,000 vaccines that will allow us to continue our vaccination programme," she revealed.
Dr. Bisasor McKenzie said the ministry is expecting another batch of 50,000 vaccines from COVAX within two weeks.
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