The Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs, Senator the Honourable Dr. Amery Browne, welcomes the scheduled arrival of 304,200 doses of WHO-approved Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines from the Government of the United States of America. The vaccines are due to arrive in two shipments at the Piarco International Airport at 8:22 a.m. on Thursday 9th December 2021 and at 8:22 a.m. on Friday 10th December 2021. These shipments will be the second tranche of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to be donated from the United States of America to Trinidad and Tobago.
Minister Browne thanks the Government of the United States of America for this generous donation, which is the result of sustained dialogue, diplomacy, and negotiations involving the Government of the United States of America, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, other CARICOM Member States, the CARICOM Secretariat, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), and Pfizer. Dr. the Honourable Keith Rowley, in his capacity as the then Chairman of CARICOM, initiated and lead this effort to secure vaccines on behalf of Trinidad and Tobago and CARICOM.
The Government of Trinidad and Tobago continues the acquisition of WHO-approved COVID-19 vaccines for the population, and the Ministry of Health will be utilizing these vaccines within its national vaccine rollout.
