The fol­low­ing is an up­date from the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, con­cern­ing the ship­ment of John­son & John­son vac­cines for this coun­try.

Dr Denise Tsoiafatt-An­gus of the In­no­v­a­tive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Al­liance (IDA) ad­vis­es par­ents to ed­u­cate them­selves about the COVID-19 Pfiz­er vac­cine.

Hun­dreds of young peo­ple start­ed lin­ing up out­side the mass vac­ci­na­tion site at Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va from as ear­ly as 6:30 am to get their Pfiz­er vac­cine against COVID-19. 

Al­though T&T re­mains un­der an ad­verse weath­er alert—this has not been enough to de­ter hun­dreds of per­sons who turned out to re­ceive the Pfiz­er vac­cine, this morn­ing.

Scores of chil­dren, ac­com­pa­nied by their par­ents, showed up at the Pfiz­er vac­ci­na­tion site at the MIC Pleas­antville Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­tre at Pleas­antville, to­day, shel­ter­ing from the rain un­der their um­brel­las as they lined up out­side the fa­cil­i­ty, wait­ing their turn. 

The roll-out of the Pfiz­er vac­cines for Sec­ondary School stu­dents in To­ba­go has been post­poned.

The Mass Vac­ci­na­tion Pro­gramme helmed by the Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SATT) will con­tin­ue to give sec­ond dos­es of the Sinopharm Covid-19 Vac­cine on Thurs­day 19th Au­gust, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, at the SATT-SE­WA TT’s Mass Vac­ci­na­tion Site, lo­cat­ed at Di­vali Na­gar, Uri­ah But­ler High­way, En­deav­our.

The Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CPLCC) is pos­i­tive the re­tail sec­tor would see in­creased ac­tiv­i­ty in the com­ing months.

For­mer Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple and So­cial De­vel­op­ment, Dr Glenn Ra­mad­hars­ingh, is urg­ing young peo­ple to get vac­ci­nat­ed against COVID-19.

62 per­sons were is­sued tick­ets for fail­ing to wear their face mask prop­er­ly (or at all), ac­cord­ing to the lat­est COVID Reg­u­la­tions en­force­ment up­date from the Po­lice Ser­vice.

The pan­dem­ic has seen many busi­ness­es fold un­der eco­nom­ic pres­sure, while some have been able to piv­ot and re-in­vent them­selves.

Ch­agua­nas busi­ness­men say they are not ex­pect­ing the re­tail sec­tor to pick up overnight, as the re­tail sec­tor across the coun­try of­fi­cial­ly re­opened to­day, af­ter be­ing closed for quite a while be­cause of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.