The Jab Jab About To Begin
St. Kitts and Nevis receive shipment of the Vaccine By Stephen Weir: Get ready to roll up your sleeves Kittitians and Nevisians. If all goes as planned, there will be a whole lot of jabbing go on next week! The St Kitts and Nevis’ Covid Vaccine programme is about to start in full force. During a Tuesday afternoon zoom press conference, Lindsey Grant (pictured above), the Federation’s Minister of Tourism, Transport and Ports told travel journalists from around the world that his country’s first shipment of vaccine has just arrived and inoculations will begin soon. “Our Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines are here,” said a smiling Minister Grant. “ We will roll it out starting next week.” Not all of the 52,000 residents of the two-island nation will receive the vaccine immediately. According to Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Hazel Laws, the first shipment received by her office contains just 21,600 doses of the COVID-19 Vaccine. Talking last week to the Basseterre Observer newspaper, Dr. Laws