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OECS benefits from Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine donation by Government of India

This story was posted 1 year ago
2 March 2021
in Health, PRESS RELEASE
2 min. read
Health Minister Hon. Nickolas Steele accompanied by Dr. George Mitchell, a member of the COVID-19 Committee, receiving the shipment of vaccines in Grenada
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The Heads of Government of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) announced the arrival of one hundred and twenty-five thousand (125,000) doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine donated by the Government and People of India.This shipment arrived at the VC Bird International Airport in Antigua and Barbuda on Monday, 1 March 2021 around 8:30 am. It follows a previous shipment received less than 2 weeks ago by Barbados and Dominica (who received 70,000 doses, a significant portion of which was shared with other OECS Member States).

Chairman of the Authority of the OECS, Prime Minister Hon Roosevelt Skerrit, and all of the Prime Ministers, have collectively and individually expressed their profound appreciation to the Government and People of India, and in particular to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for their generosity and solidarity in donating these vaccines.

India has been one of the first G20 countries to donate vaccines to developing countries and it now has a list of over 100 countries awaiting supplies provided by India. The OECS Heads of Government committed that Member States will be leveraging their bilateral diplomatic relations as well as sharing critical resources to ensure that every Member State is equipped to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

The OECS received 125,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca from the Government of India

Director-General of the OECS Dr Didacus Jules is confident in the established cooperation of Member States and its partners to helping the region in this battle against the novel coronavirus.

“I would like to express our deepest appreciation, not just to the Government of India for the shipment of vaccines, but also to the Regional Security Service [RSS] for their extraordinary effort in helping with the distribution of the vaccines to all OECS Member States in a quick and timely manner.  To the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank [ECCB], we thank you for paying for the charter to get the vaccines where they needed to go. We also express appreciation to the French and British Governments for their attention to their territories who are Associate Members of the OECS by ensuring that their vaccines needs are fully met.”

On 17 February the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres revealed that 10 countries on the planet have administered 75% of all vaccinations and he demanded a global effort to ensure that everyone in every country has access to the vaccine. He noted with concern that 130 countries across the world had not received a single dose of the vaccine.

In this context, the OECS Member States are continuing strenuous efforts as Small Island Developing States whose vaccine needs are miniscule in the scale of global demand to ensure that we are front of the line in vaccine support from all internationally approved vaccines.

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