RISHARD KHAN
rishard.khan@guardian.co.tt

Char­la­tans are at­tempt­ing to ped­al over-in­flat­ed—and even down­right fake—vac­cines to the Gov­ern­ment.

The rev­e­la­tion came from Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley dur­ing a Min­istry of Health vir­tu­al press con­fer­ence on Mon­day, as he re­spond­ed to claims about the gov­ern­ment's per­ceived fail­ure to ac­quire COVID-19 vac­cines.

He in­di­cat­ed that some of these peo­ple were in­flat­ing the price of dos­es well over 1,000 per cent.

Min­is­ter of Health, Ter­rence Deyals­ingh, said these peo­ple are be­ing re­port­ed to lo­cal agents of man­u­fac­tur­ers who would then treat with the mat­ter them­selves.

Both the Prime Min­is­ter and Min­is­ter of Health gave as­sur­ances that on­ly vac­cines ap­proved by the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WHO) would be ad­min­is­tered to the pub­lic.