Free dou­bles of­fered at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um’s dri­ve through vac­ci­na­tion site is one of the  fac­tors that may have re­sult­ed in a de­crease of peo­ple us­ing the  vac­ci­na­tion fa­cil­i­ty of­fered by the Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CPLCC) at the cham­ber’s  au­di­to­ri­um at Cam­den, Cou­va.

On Fri­day the  CPLCC teamed up with the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) to in­oc­u­late per­sons with ap­point­ments. How­ev­er ac­cord­ing to Richie Sookhai, the pres­i­dent of the CCIC, per­sons are opt­ing for the fa­cil­i­ties at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um where dou­bles are al­so giv­en to per­sons get­ting the jab Sookhai said the CPLCC fa­cil­i­ty at Cam­den would be used over the week­end and would stop on Mon­day if num­bers don’t in­crease. He said the fa­cil­i­ty would re­sume op­er­a­tions on­ly to ad­min­is­ter the sec­ond dos­es. He said “Be­cause of the var­i­ous sites pop­ping up there is a lot of di­lu­tion of re­sources, al­so there is a lot of op­tions for in­di­vid­u­als to go to oth­er lo­ca­tions.”

Sookhai said  vac­cine hes­i­tan­cy is al­so  keep­ing back per­sons from tak­ing the  jab. He urged em­ploy­ers to of­fer in­cen­tives to their work­ers to get vac­ci­nat­ed “This is the on­ly way we can move for­ward to help open our econ­o­my. We can see where the pow­er of dou­bles is to go to oth­er lo­ca­tions.”  Sookhai said the dri­ve through  fa­cil­i­ty is much eas­i­er for the dis­abled  and can re­duce con­tact per­sons have with each oth­er  .

Mukesh Ram­s­ingh, the pres­i­dent of the CPLCC, said since the fa­cil­i­ty got run­ning last Fri­day just over 4000 per­sons have been vac­ci­nat­ed.