10.7% Persons Vaccinated So Far

Natalia Largaespada Beer

The COVID-19 vaccination campaign was launched on March first and phases one to three are currently open, allowing for teachers, parliamentarians, law enforcement officers, healthcare workers and others to be inoculated. The highest vaccination coverage for first dose is healthcare workers with eighty-five point three percent; fifty-one percent of teachers have been vaccinated and fifty percent of the elderly population. In an update, Doctor Natalia Largaespada Beer told News Five that so far, an overall ten point seven percent of the population has received a first jab of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine.

Dr. Natalia Largaespada Beer, Maternal & Child Health Technical Advisor, M.O.H.W.

“We now have open, phase one two and three.  To date we have administered forty-five thousand one hundred and thirteen doses of COVID-19 vaccine; that represents ten point seven percent of the total population of Belize. We know that the population that is eligible is eighteen years and older.”