Finally! UK to deliver on 2nd dose of COVID-19 vaccines
Word reaching our newsroom from our sources in the Governor’s Office is that the shipment from the United Kingdom (UK) is scheduled to arrive at Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport on Beef Island at 8:00pm tomorrow night, March 17, 2021.
Sources in the Governor’s Office were happy to leak this story to our news site after Government officials in the Ministry of Health and others close to the Minister said that the UK had changed their date on the arrival of the vaccines for almost 3 times and had almost compromised the health of persons requiring the second dose.
National vaccination programme interrupted over UK delay
The uncertainty over when the promised second batch of COVID-19 vaccines would arrive in the Virgin Islands (VI) from the UK, causing a brief pause to the vaccination programme in the territory.
The first batch of 8000 units of vaccines arrived in the VI on February 4, 2021, and Governor John J. Rankin, CMG had promised the VI that the second dose would arrive in the VI on March 3, 2021; however, that did not happen and there was no explanation.
When asked by the Ministry of Health and Social Development for an update, the same Governor promised a new date of March 15, 2021. It left the Government of the day in a dilemma as to whether or not to vaccinate the residents with the remaining four thousand doses of the eight thousand, knowing that it’s a two-shot dose arrangement.
VI received 2000 doses through COVAX
Again, Governor Rankin assured the Government that the second dose is on the way. Recently, he again changed the date for the arrival of the second dose of vaccine to March 17, 2021, undermining the trust of the people in the UK's ability to gift the territory with anything.
The delay of the vaccines had caused a pause in the territory’s COVID-19 vaccination programme; however, after the VI received some 2000 doses of the vaccines from Dominica via COVAX, thanks to foresight by the Andrew A. Fahie-led Government, the programme resumed.
It is also alleged that Governor Rankin had even tried to stop the order placed by the Fahie government with COVAX.
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Covid means they died from “Covid”
The Government hasn't even used up the first UK batch yet. That's without the 2000 doses it managed to beg from Dominica in an attempt to show BVI could manage adequately without UK.
Question: Why we the BVI using it ?
From receiving it ?