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CABINET NOTES:\u00a0<\/strong>The Minister of Health reported to Cabinet that nearly 3,000 adults have taken their required second shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine as required, in order to boost efficacy.<\/p>

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The Minister advised that no evidence of the dangerous Indian strain of the coronavirus has yet been discovered in Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>\n

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Now is the time to take the vaccine since it will ready the immune system to fight the easily transmissible strain, preventing hospitalization and death.<\/p>

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The crisis in India can only be replicated if unvaccinated adults become victims of this highly contagious and dangerous strain.<\/p>

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