And currently only half the country is vaccinated against COVID, but the MOHW is still vaccinating those who choose to get it. According to Dr Diaz they have over 100,000 vaccines in the country, and she's also encouraging residents to get the flu shot, since we are currently in the flu season.
Dr Melissa Diaz, Director, Public Health & Wellness
"Belize continues to have a large number of vaccines. When you look at having the different types, we have AstraZeneca, we have Johnson, and we have Pfizer and cumulatively, we have over 150,000 doses of vaccine so we continue to encourage persons to come in and get your COVID 19 vaccines, as a reminder, the AstraZeneca is given two doses, 8 weeks apart, and Pfizer it's two doses, twenty one days apart. We're also encouraging boosters for the general population as well and especially so for, again, we continue to encourage the vulnerable population, the elderly population, to please come in and get your boosters. We also have the flu vaccine at all health facilities and we're also encouraging for persons to come in and get the flu vaccine, you can walk into any health center and to the nurses there to administer any of the vaccines that you choose or you can have the two vaccines."
