With just hours to go be­fore the Gov­ern­ment's dead­line set in for pub­lic ser­vants to get vac­ci­nat­ed in or­der to be al­lowed to con­tin­ue work­ing from Mon­day, dis­trict health of­fi­cials in El Do­ra­do Sat­ur­day re­port­ed a slow­down in the num­ber of peo­ple com­ing for­ward.

A vis­it to the COSTAATT El Do­ra­do Nurs­ing Cam­pus around noon re­vealed that 40 peo­ple had turned up at the fa­cil­i­ty to be vac­ci­nat­ed. Of this num­ber, on­ly two peo­ple were said to be pub­lic ser­vants.

This fa­cil­i­ty op­er­ates from 8 am to 3 pm dai­ly.

One of­fi­cial ad­mit­ted they had ob­served a slow­down in the num­bers com­ing for­ward to be vac­ci­nat­ed in the last few days.

Un­able to say why this had oc­curred, an­oth­er of­fi­cial said they were un­sure of what to ex­pect un­til Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley ad­dressed the na­tion on Sat­ur­day.

Emerg­ing from her manda­to­ry ob­ser­va­tion pe­ri­od, a St Joseph woman re­port­ed en­joy­ing a smooth and seam­less process as she ac­cessed her boost­er vac­cine.

She said, "I like that...they were very ef­fi­cient."

In­di­cat­ing there were no long lines or de­lays in the process, she said while the de­ci­sion to get vac­ci­nat­ed re­mains a per­son­al choice, "You al­ways want a fight­ing chance."

She said even as in­di­vid­u­als take vi­t­a­mins and oth­er med­ica­tions dai­ly in or­der to fight the flu and oth­er dis­eases and ail­ments, so too, the COVID-19 vac­cine can be con­sid­ered as a pow­er­ful weapon in the fight against this par­tic­u­lar virus.