The In­ter-Re­li­gious Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (IRO) has is­sued an of­fi­cial state­ment ex­press­ing sup­port for vac­ci­na­tion against COVID-19.

The state­ment comes as the COVID-19 death toll rose to 2,639 on Tues­day 21 De­cem­ber 2021, and the coun­try record­ed 723 new pos­i­tive cas­es.

The full text of the IRO state­ment fol­lows…

The In­ter-Re­li­gious Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (IRO) wish­es to ex­press its full sup­port for cit­i­zens and res­i­dents of The Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go be­ing vac­ci­nat­ed against the Coro­na Virus.

Dur­ing a vir­tu­al meet­ing, mem­bers of the IRO dis­cussed the threat of the cur­rent pan­dem­ic, the se­vere ef­fects of the COVID-19 virus on the pop­u­la­tion, and the over­all chal­lenges the spread of the virus con­tin­ues to present to the lives of cit­i­zens and res­i­dents.

The IRO’s Pres­i­dent, Pan­dit Lloyd Mukram Sir­joo, and his Ex­ec­u­tive, are cog­nizant of the high num­ber of dai­ly COVID in­fec­tions and deaths.

Mem­bers of the IRO felt com­pelled to make an ap­peal to all who are el­i­gi­ble to re­ceive vac­cines, to be­come vac­ci­nat­ed.

Our mes­sage to the na­tion is sim­ple - “Please give your­selves a fight­ing chance to live - Be­come Vac­ci­nat­ed!”

Fur­ther, the IRO re­mains a staunch ad­vo­cate of the health mea­sures and pro­to­cols im­ple­ment­ed by the State, through the Min­istry of Health in the fight against the COVID-19 virus.

Ul­ti­mate­ly, the IRO re­mains a com­mit­ted re­li­gious um­brel­la body of di­verse Faith Based Or­gan­i­sa­tions (FBOs) in Trinidad and To­ba­go.