Flow Trinidad has an­nounced that hun­dreds of its em­ploy­ees have been vac­ci­nat­ed.

In a re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day Flow Trinidad said its em­ploy­ees showed up to re­ceive the first dose of the WHO-ap­proved Sinopharm COVID-19 vac­cine at the NCIC Di­vali Na­gar Mass Vac­ci­na­tion site in Ch­agua­nas on Tues­day.

“As an es­sen­tial ser­vice, tak­ing care of our peo­ple con­tin­ues to be a pri­or­i­ty for us dur­ing this pan­dem­ic; our col­lab­o­ra­tion with in­dus­try stake­hold­ers for pri­or­i­ty ac­cess to COVID-19 vac­cines for our staff is our com­mit­ment to con­tin­ue to op­er­ate dur­ing this pan­dem­ic while keep­ing our peo­ple and our cus­tomers safe,” said Flow’s Vice Pres­i­dent Si­mone Mar­tin-Sul­gan.

“The men­tal load our team mem­bers have car­ried over this pe­ri­od has been a huge one. Get­ting vac­ci­nat­ed of­fers the se­cu­ri­ty of an ex­tra lay­er of pro­tec­tion for them and their fam­i­lies while main­tain­ing our cus­tomers as one of our biggest WHYs. We are do­ing this in sup­port of Gov­ern­ment’s Vac­ci­nate to Op­er­ate pro­gramme so that we can get our coun­try back to full pro­duc­tiv­i­ty.”

When asked why she chose to get vac­ci­nat­ed, Flow’s Re­tail Sales Co­or­di­na­tor, Stacey Teles­ford re­vealed: “It’s the prac­ti­cal thing to do. COVID isn’t go­ing away any time soon and now that the vac­cine is in play, the “new norm” will in­clude spe­cif­ic re­quire­ments for what was once con­sid­ered sim­ple. Tak­ing the vac­cine al­lows for an eas­i­er process.”

Jacque­line Thomp­son, Man­ag­er, Cus­tomer Care Op­er­a­tions said: “It’s my PSR [Per­son­al So­cial Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty] – Be­ing vac­ci­nat­ed, I pro­tect my­self, and in do­ing so I pro­tect my kids and oth­ers.”

An­dre Lee Ha, Se­nior Man­ag­er, Glob­al HSE shared: “While I know vac­ci­na­tion will not pre­vent me from con­tract­ing the C-19, it will how­ev­er, in­crease the pos­si­bil­i­ty of me sur­viv­ing this dead­ly virus. And it is for this rea­son I took the jabs, so that I may con­tin­ue to sup­port my loved ones.”

The day saw thou­sands of stake­hold­ers in the lo­cal telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions in­dus­try ac­cess­ing the vac­cines pro­vid­ed and fa­cil­i­tat­ed by the Min­istry of Health.