Prime Minister Gaston Browne said his government would eventually remove all the restrictions in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Antigua and Barbuda.
“At some point, we will have to open up the country’s economy, we’ll have to do away with all of the regulations, the curfew and, you know, other things that we have in place. We would have to fully open up the country at some point,” he told Pointe FM on Saturday.
The Prime Minister said if people allow themselves to “become more vulnerable and you do not get vaccinated and let’s say we open up the country later in the year and you’re not vaccinated, then you’re running the risk of contracting the disease and potentially getting hospitalized or you can actually die.”
“Now, at that time, I don’t know anyone can fault the government because on a weekly basis for several months, we’ve been asking people to go out there and, on a daily basis for that matter, to go out there and to get vaccinated,” he insisted.
“I just wanna signal here, I will have a further discussion on this maybe in the next couple of weeks that at some point a firm date has to be set to fully reopen the country and reopening the country with a lot of people unvaccinated obviously will make us very vulnverable to a third wave and potentially high levels of infection. It would also undermine out economy”, Browne explained.
The Prime Minister insisted that vaccination was the only way out of the pandemic and encouraged everyone to “get vaccinated, recognizing that each vaccinated, all protected.”
Thirty three thousand two hundred and fourteen (33,214) first doses of the Covid-19 vaccines have been administered .
Fifteen thousand one hundred and thirty-three (15,133) second doses were administered.
Browne says based on the uptake in vaccinations 40 thousand doses can be administered by the end of June.
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The people’s government is doing an excellent job with this pandemic, and is to be commended. The only way out is vaccination. Only then can we really open this country up totally.
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Yes… take the ‘vaccine’, it’s looks like that’ll be the only way we can rid the island of stupid people.
33,000 first doses
15,000 second doses
PLEASE CLARIFY
is this really 15,000 fully vaccinated people & 18,000 have had one dose???
Isn’t it interesting how the government is suddenly ready to go back to normal less than a week after we learn new explosive details about Tony Fauci’s involvement in the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
Where is Sly J when you need him. This information was out there all the time, but people only see what they want to see. What I want to know is why more than half of the persons who took the first dose haven’t come back for the second dose given that it’s free.
Not all first doses are from back in early March. They stopped first doses to ensure second dose availability at around 23.5k first doses.
May I take the vaccine you got Mr Prime Minister?
World dictator traitor tyrant liar Gaston Browne only looking for his salary for himself and the rest of his leeches in cabinet. All of them must be voted out.
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