St Kitts and Nevis vaccinated around 33.8% of target population

St Kitts and Nevis have vaccinated around 33.8% of the target population by April 14, 2021. The Ministry of health shared the latest information on Thursday.

As per the statistics, over 11,152 doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered across St Kitts and Nevis.

Health Ministry announced that 8,385 people received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in St Kitts, while around 2767 people received the jab in Nevis till April 14, 2021.

To achieve herd immunity, it is eminent to immunize around 70% of the total population of 70,000 people as the goal is to vaccinate 33,037 individuals, 33.8% of people have already been protected against the coronavirus with the first dose of vaccine.

However, no persons have been given the second dose of the vaccine in both St Kitts and Nevis, and the second doses are mainly due by the beginning of the following month.

St Kitts and Nevis's government continues to advise its population over the age of 18 to receive their doses of vaccination at their nearby immunization centres.

The government of India sent 20,000 doses of the Oxford Astrazeneca coronavirus vaccine. Earlier, Dominica had given 2000 doses of vaccine to St Kitts and Nevis. It also received 21,600 doses of the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine, manufactured by SK Bioscience of South Kore through World Health Organization's joint COVAX mission with GAVI alliance.