The Min­istry of Health has said that a high flu vac­cine up­take by the pub­lic will help to re­duce the de­mand for pub­lic health re­sources to treat flu-re­lat­ed com­pli­ca­tions. These re­sources can be used to treat COVID-19 pa­tients.

While the flu vac­cine is avail­able for every­one, peo­ple who are at high­est risk of get­ting very ill from the flu are es­pe­cial­ly en­cour­aged to get the new flu vac­cine. Peo­ple in the high-risk group in­clude:

· Chil­dren aged 6 months to 5 years

· Adults 60 years of age and over

· Preg­nant women

· Peo­ple suf­fer­ing from Non-Com­mu­ni­ca­ble Dis­eases - NCDs (eg, di­a­betes, hy­per­ten­sion, heart dis­ease)

· Peo­ple with com­pro­mised im­mune sys­tems (eg, peo­ple with lu­pus, can­cer pa­tients)

· Peo­ple with chron­ic res­pi­ra­to­ry ill­ness­es (eg, asth­ma, chron­ic ob­struc­tive pul­monary dis­ease)

· Mem­bers of the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Forces and Cus­toms and Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion

· Health­care work­ers

In Trinidad, while the flu vac­cine will be avail­able at all health cen­tres, the cen­tres list­ed be­low will pro­vide the new flu vac­cine from Mon­day to Fri­day be­tween 8 am and 4 pm. Mem­bers of the pub­lic may call the oth­er health cen­tres in Trinidad for their spe­cif­ic flu vac­ci­na­tion sched­ules.

*Ari­ma Health Cen­tre

*Oropouche Health Cen­tre

*Barataria Health Cen­tre

*Pa­lo Seco Health Cen­tre

*Care­nage Health Cen­tre

*Point Fortin Health Cen­tre

*Clax­ton Bay Health Cen­tre

*Rio Claro Health Cen­tre

*Cou­va Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty

*Roy Joseph Health Cen­tre

*Cu­mu­to Health Cen­tre

*San Juan Health Cen­tre

*Cunu­pia Health Cen­tre

*San­gre Grande (Old) Health Cen­tre

*Freeport Health Cen­tre

*St He­le­na Health Cen­tre

*La Brea Health Cen­tre

*St Joseph En­hanced Health Cen­tre

*Matu­ra Health Cen­tre

*St Madeleine Health Cen­tre

*Ma­yaro Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty

*Williamsville Health Cen­tre

*Wood­brook Health Cen­tre

The pub­lic is al­so in­vit­ed to vis­it the so­cial me­dia pages of the Di­vi­sion of Health, Well­ness and Fam­i­ly De­vel­op­ment, To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly and the Min­istry of Health for the flu vac­ci­na­tion sched­ules for Health Cen­tres in To­ba­go.