Dominica launches pre-registration drive for COVID-19 vaccination

Dominica: In a major vaccination drive in the region, the commonwealth of Dominica launched a pre-registration drive by both online and offline means for the public. Residents and Citizens can log in to http://vaccineregistration.dominica.gov.dm/ to register themselves to get the jab of Oxford Astra-Zeneca vaccine in Dominica. The Dominican government received 70,000 doses of vaccine from India – which are enough to vaccinate over 50% of its population. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit had announced earlier that the vaccination drive would be carried out in a phased manner. The first phase would include all frontline workers, senior citizens, members of the Cabinet and Parliament. These individuals would get two jabs of the COVID-19 vaccine in the time frame of 3 months. The government has put in place all the measures to monitor the vaccination drive delicately. In fact, Oxford’s Covishield jab kicks in after three weeks and lasts for more than three months to get the second jab.

Currently, Dominica is among the nations which have successfully curbed the coronavirus menace and recorded zero deaths so far. The wise management of the Prime Minister has made the nature island an example for the other countries worldwide, including CARICOM nations, as the global pandemic severely impacts some the nations.

Displaying a kind gesture, the government of Dominica and Barbados has donated some of the vaccines they had received from India to their sister nations. Prime Ministers Roosevelt Skerrit and Mia Amor Mottley set an example of comradery in the whole Caribbean. Several countries, including St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, Grenada, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Bahamas.

The website launched by the Dominica government would allow people to answer some simple questions and get registered. People who would be eligible to take the vaccine would be marked on the priority list.