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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Vaccines now open to all without appointments at mass vaccination sites

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Members of the public at the American Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Coalition of Services Industries’ mass vaccination drive at NAPA, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

Members of the public at the American Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Coalition of Services Industries’ mass vaccination drive at NAPA, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

Anisto Alves

The Min­istry of Health has opened up vac­ci­na­tions to any­one who wish­es to be vac­ci­nat­ed, even with­out an ap­point­ment.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, the min­istry said that ap­point­ments will no longer be nec­es­sary to gain ac­cess to COVID-19 vac­cines at all dri­ve-through fa­cil­i­ties and some mass vac­ci­na­tion sites from to­day.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Health, this lib­er­al process is to al­low in­creased ac­cess to dos­es as the coun­try pre­pares for the ar­rival of the Delta vari­ant of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that caus­es COVID-19).

The min­istry state­ment said: “This ini­tia­tive is aimed at in­creas­ing the reach, ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty and con­ve­nience for mem­bers of the pub­lic seek­ing to be vac­ci­nat­ed against COVID-19. The pop­u­la­tion is en­cour­aged to avail them­selves of this op­por­tu­ni­ty to pro­tect them­selves and their loved ones from the COVID-19 virus.”

The on­ly mass sites that will not be ac­cept­ing walk-in ap­point­ments are the UTT Ch­agua­nas Cam­pus and the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre as sec­ond dose As­traZeneca vac­cines are be­ing ad­min­is­tered there.  

The min­istry al­so list­ed the times for the vac­ci­na­tion process­es. At the Pad­dock, Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, San­gre Grande Civic Cen­tre, Ma­yaro Sport Fa­cil­i­ty, Pow­er­Gen Pe­nal Pow­er Sta­tion and South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (SAPA), the vac­ci­na­tions will take place from Mon­days to Fri­days from 8 am to 3 pm.

The days and times at the Frankie Boodram Waller­field In­ter­na­tion­al Race­way, He­li­port, Ch­aguara­mas and Ato Boldon Sta­di­um are Mon­days to Sun­days from 8 am to 5 pm.

The Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) site will op­er­ate from Wednes­days to Sun­days from 9 am to 6 pm and the NCIC Di­vali Na­gar Site will be Mon­days to Fri­days from 9 am to 5 pm.

Mean­while, the Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce and AM­CHAM T&T, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coali­tion of Ser­vices In­dus­tries, are op­er­at­ing a mass vac­ci­na­tion site at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA), Port-of-Spain, on­ly.

The busi­ness or­gan­i­sa­tions said that any­one can book an ap­point­ment at www.vac­ci­nate.org.tt and that walk-ins will al­so be ac­com­mo­dat­ed.

The NA­PA vac­ci­na­tion site is open from 9 am to 6 pm Wednes­days to Sun­days week­ly.

They ad­vised that they are not con­duct­ing vac­ci­na­tions at the Cham­ber Build­ing, Colum­bus Cir­cle, West­moor­ings, as stat­ed in mes­sages be­ing cir­cu­lat­ed on so­cial me­dia.

The Cham­ber has al­so as­sured there are no short­ages of any kind at the NA­PA vac­ci­na­tion site. 
“We have all the ma­te­ri­als re­quired to con­duct our vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve. In fact, we are open for walk-ins and peo­ple can make ap­point­ments at vac­ci­nate.org.tt, so please come in and get your vac­ci­na­tions,” cham­ber CEO Gabriel Faria told Guardian Me­dia.
“We’ve been get­ting ex­cel­lent sup­port from the Min­istry (of Health) and there are no short­ages of any items.”
He said they have re­ceived noth­ing but good re­views and said this week­end, they in­tend to have give­aways from com­pa­nies that have been sup­port­ing the ef­fort.


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