The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) says that it has reached a mile­stone with the suc­cess­ful ad­min­is­tra­tion of 10,000 first-dose vac­cines to date for the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty as it makes way for the re­open­ing of the busi­ness sec­tor.

In a me­dia re­lease yes­ter­day, the pres­i­dent of the TTMA, Tri­cia Coos­al stat­ed, "We are elat­ed that TTMA is a sol­id con­trib­u­tor to the Gov­ern­ment’s ‘Vac­ci­nate to Op­er­ate’ pro­gramme. We thank the Min­istry of Health and Min­istry of Trade & In­dus­try for the con­fi­dence and trust placed in TTMA to ex­e­cute large vac­ci­na­tion sites. This pub­lic-pri­vate part­ner­ship has worked seam­less­ly for the vac­ci­na­tion of the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty."

Coos­al said that the TTMA was com­mit­ted to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of both first and sec­ond dos­es— the plan is to com­mence sec­ond dose ad­min­is­tra­tion to Phase one 5,000 vac­ci­nat­ed re­cip­i­ents next week.

"We deeply ap­pre­ci­ate the vol­un­teer as­sis­tance of the T&T Med­ical As­so­ci­a­tion and SE­WA TT In­ter­na­tion­al and the Na­tion­al Coun­cil for In­di­an Cul­ture. On be­half of TTMA Board of Di­rec­tors, we ex­tend ap­pre­ci­a­tion to all who con­tributed to the suc­cess of this 10,000 dos­es vac­ci­na­tion ad­min­is­tra­tion achieve­ment…vac­ci­na­tion for the na­tion."

Con­struc­tion work­ers get Sinopharm jabs

Mean­while, hun­dreds of con­struc­tion work­ers lined up at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts on Sat­ur­day to re­ceive their first dose of Sinopharm vac­cines.

The process was or­der­ly and de­spite heavy rains, the lines flowed smooth­ly.

Among those be­ing vac­ci­nat­ed were 40 plus work­ers from Al­lied Home Cen­tre.

Man­ag­ing di­rec­tor at the com­pa­ny Si­mon Alexan­der ex­pressed sat­is­fac­tion say­ing, "The ser­vice was ex­cel­lent. All of my work­ers got through. They catered for 33 peo­ple this morn­ing and sev­en oth­ers were vac­ci­nat­ed af­ter 1 pm. So far I can say that the vac­ci­na­tions be­ing done at SAPA are run­ning smooth­ly."

Vac­ci­na­tions at SAPA will con­tin­ue on Sun­day.