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Difficult to assess impact on J&J delivery
Posted: Thursday, June 17, 2021

COVID fraud: More than 700 double payments identified
The report noted that there were 49,433 applications for the food support grant, totalling $75,632,490 in payouts while 47,685 applicants for Income Support with $145,467,750 in payouts. $221,100,240 would have been distributed for both grants up to September 30 when the audit was completed.

Fully vaccinated people should still wear masks: Why?
"To ensure that we decrease the spread of the SARS COV-2 virus until we have a greater number of our citizens being vaccinated, we need to continue following those 3Ws protocols. "And then we have to protect those who cannot be vaccinated at this point in time."

RHAs say vaccination rollout 'back on track'
Gloomy skies and intermittent rainfall yesterday morning was not enough to deter the hundreds of elderly citizens who turned up to get their first dose of the Sinopharm and the second dose of AstraZeneca vaccines at health centres across the country, as the Ministry of Health made attempts to correct problems with vaccine delivery which resulted in chaos last week.

COVID-19 vaccine drive continues at health centres
Appointment-only system in force

Deyalsingh: Difficult to assess impact on J&J delivery to T&T
After US factory ordered to destroy 60 million vaccines

UNC slams PM's absence from Parliament
Says it's a demonstration of 'complete contempt' for parliamentary democracy

Japan's Ambassador to T&T:
Despite growing calls for the Games to be cancelled, even from its own citizens, the Japanese government has held firm on the motto of its bid in 2013 "A Safe Pair of Hands." Japan's bid and ultimate award of the Games came at a time of great geopolitical uncertainty.

Associate professor says it's not possible to compare vaccines
"You have to compare apples to apples and not apples to oranges. The problem with comparing them is that these manufacturing companies came out with the vaccines at different times. For example, the Moderna and the Pfizer came out against the original strain because that was what was around then, all the others that came out have been tested in areas that variants appear, so for example, AstraZeneca was tested in Brazil where there was a variant, so was Sinopharm,"

T&T's Gittens is NCAA Field Athlete of the Year
T&T's Tyra Gittens was on Tuesday named the "National Women's Field Athlete of the Year" for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Outdoor Track & Field season by the US Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).



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