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this Holiday Season.
Caribbean Life, D 16 ECEMBER 18-24, 2020
CARIBBEAN ROUNDUP
ures would also provide new guidelines
for travel to Region Seven and to Suriname
and that the curfew remains
the same for this
month, with lock
down hours from
10.30pm to 4 a.m.
Non- e s sent ia l
travel into or out of
Cuyuni-Mazaruni
(Region Seven) is restricted for the
entire month of December and travel
will only be permitted where it is connected
to an essential service, according
to the Official Gazette, which was
issued last week.
Travel to Suriname via Moleson Creek
Crossing will be opened from Dec. 12.
All operators and passengers must comply
with the precautionary port health
measures, the authorities said.
Travel to the neighboring country
was halted and the Guyana-Suriname
Ferry Service closed, following Guyana’s
first COVID-19 case on March 14,
prompting the shutdown of all ports of
entry.
Guyana now has 5,406 positive cases
with 151 deaths.
Trinidad
The Trinidad and Tobago government
will receive 461,000 COVID-19
vaccine doses, to inoculate a third of
the population amid the ongoing pandemic.
This was revealed by Prime Minister
Dr. Keith Rowley who told Parliament
last week that in September, T&T had
signed up to the Cova facility so as to
get equal access to vaccines whenever
they are approved by the World Health
Organization (WHO).
He said once a vaccine is approved
“we will receive in
the first instance,
enough vaccine for
20 percent of the
population that is
279,000 persons.”
The prime minister
said T&T has pre-ordered vaccines
to cover 33 percent of the population-
that is 461,000 persons, at a cost of
TT$9.7 million, adding that the government
has already made a payment of
TT$1.477 million.
Rowley said priority will be given to
high-risk groups, namely “elderly persons
over 60, those with non-communicable
diseases, health care and other
front-line workers and those who are
suffering from lupus or cancer. They
will be our first citizens to access the
vaccine.”
T&T has recorded a total of 6,879
positive cases of covid-19 since March
this year with 122 deaths as of Dec. 5.
— Compiled by Azad Ali
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