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Prime Minister Gaston Browne said he came close to becoming infected with COVID-19 on several occasions.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve had so many exposures. Two members of my security team had to be quarantined for COVID exposure. I would have seen at least two individuals at the office who tested subsequently for COVID,\u201d Browne revealed Saturday on Pointe Fm.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIn fact, they were infected when they met with me but because I was following those protocols to the T and subsequently got vaccinated, I mean, I was evidently protected, \u201d he added.<\/div>\n
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The Prime Minister said if he had not been vaccinated, \u201cmaybe I would have been at Mount St. John on a ventilator, potentially could have even died. So, for me, you know, it was a risk management exercise and people need to assess their risk and to manage their risk by getting vaccinated.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Prime Minister Browne took the Moderna vaccine several weeks before the country launched its official vaccination programme using AstraZeneca doses.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI was perhaps, maybe, the first person to have gotten vaccinated on Antiguan soil and I can speak definitively that these vaccines work, they help to protect us, \u201d he insisted.<\/div>\n
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“I didn’t even recognize that the individual had already administered the vaccination. It was so seamless and I had absolutely no symptoms, you know, there was no side effects,” the Prime Minister said.<\/div>\n
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