Tag: COVID-19 vaccine
HSA to verify vaccines for digital records
(CNS): The Health Services Authority (HSA) has issued a list of phone numbers that it is asking those in the community who were vaccinated by the authority against COVID-19 to look out for. as public health staff made need to contact people to verify certain information. The HSA is in the process of merging the […]
Eight people in isolation test positive for COVID
(CNS): Eight travellers currently in isolation have tested positive for COVID-19 in the latest batch of results released by Chief Medical Officer Dr John Lee. There are now 18 active cases of the virus among those in government quarantine or home isolation, six of which are showing symptoms of the virus. No details have been […]
National COVID vaccination rate reaches 70%
(CNS): The vaccination level across the Cayman Islands finally reached 70% of the population on Monday, as 49,494 people have now had both shots of the COVID-19 vaccine. The number of people having had at least one shot has risen to 51,514, or 72% of an estimated population of just over 71,000 people.
CIG waits for UK advice on COVID booster shots
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government has indicated that it will be guided by research underway in the UK when it comes to decisions regarding the rollout of COVID-19 vaccine booster shots. Officials have said that the public health authorities in England are expecting a report on the Pfizer booster shots in just over a week, […]
HSA rolling out digital vaccine certificates
(CNS): Anyone who received their COVID-19 vaccination in the Cayman Islands will soon be able to access a digital vaccination certificate on-demand via the hospital’s MyHSA Patient Portal, officials from the Health Services Authority said, as the country prepares for travel restrictions being eased. The certificates are expected to be available by the middle of […]
Officials working on vaccine survey results
(CNS): The Health Services Authority has now surveyed around 24,000 people locally who have had both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine about possiblel side effects and adverse reactions and hope to make the results available to the public shortly. Given the scale of the project and the pressure on HSA resources, the staff are still […]
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine gets full FDA clearance
(CNS): The US Food and Drug Administration has given full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for everyone aged 16 years and older after the agency completed its full review of the quality, safety and effectiveness of the vaccine which has been under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) since the end of last year. In a […]
Education minister reveals she is now vaccinated
(CNS): Education Minister Juliana O’Connor-Connolly has confirmed that she has been vaccinated, despite her original misgivings. For some time the minister’s vaccine status had been undisclosed and she was the only Cabinet member who had not publicly received the shots and encouraged her constituents to do likewise. This has been fuelling speculation that, despite government […]
Just 57 new vaccines given after clinic closures
(CNS): With the COVID-19 vaccination clinic closed most days this week, just 57 additional people have been added to the first dose vaccine tally. The clinics are closed on Mondays anyway, but Hurricane Grace scuppered the schedule for the rest of this week as well. This means that, less than three weeks from government’s target […]
Double dose rate inches upward to 69%
(CNS): After almost two weeks of the needle being stuck on the national COVID-19 vaccination rate for both doses, it finally moved one percentage point on Monday to 69% after 202 people got their second does over the last four days. But since public officials last released vaccination numbers on Thursday, just 239 people came […]
80% of over 30s have had first COVID shot
(CNS): The national vaccination rate in Cayman is being held down by the younger members of the community, as 80% of those aged 30 and over have had their first shot and will all have had their second doses by the time government begins the soft border reopening on 9 September. But more than 30% […]
