Barbados: Frontline medical personnel receives first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca

Barbados: Health frontline workers received their first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in Barbados yesterday.

According to information, Public health nurses, other staff at the Branford Taitt Polyclinic, and teams who would be included in giving vaccinations received their first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine yesterday.

The Next Day, it is expected that other frontline medical personnel from the Harrison Point Isolation Facility, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, other isolation facilities, and health care institutions to receive their first shots of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Supermarket staff, gas attendants, and other highly exposed individuals and are working daily to keep the nation running are on the list of those who will receive the vaccine early.

The island reported 47 new positive cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, February 10, from the 690 tests administered by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory.

There were 43 recoveries, and the number of active coronavirus cases now stands at 337.

The 47 new coronavirus cases comprise 20 men and 27 women. Five of them had already been at the Harrison Point Isolation Facility undergoing evaluation to determine whether their positive PCR test result confirmed that they were, in fact, newly positive or whether they had coronavirus in the past and were no longer contagious.

Of the 42 other cases, 39 are Barbadians, and two are non-citizens. The 42 coronavirus cases include 22 persons from a nursing home – three staff members and 19 patients.

The total number of persons recognized as positive at Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds is 363. Of these, 361 have recovered, and the remaining two patients are included in the active cases.

Till now, Barbados has reported 1,904 confirmed cases – 813 females and 1,091 males – and 1,547 persons have redeemed.

There have been 20 deaths from the viral ailment. Since February 2020, the public health laboratory has performed 109,836 tests.

Barbados donated Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine to Caribbean island Guyana and St Lucia. Leaders of both countries expressed their gratitude to Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley.

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