Around 57% of Cayman’s over-70 population has received the COVID-19 vaccine, health officials said this week.
As of Monday, 9,143 of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines had been distributed. This number includes 1,545 second doses.
“While some data is still to be collated, initial calculations indicate around 57% of those aged over 70 years and 46% of those aged over 60 years have received at least one vaccination dose,” noted a statement on the latest COVID results and vaccination distribution.
Chief Medical Officer Dr. John Lee said in the statement that there were eight new positive results among the 500 COVID-19 tests carried out since Friday.
Those eight were travellers, all of whom are required to remain in isolation until they test negative. One has symptoms of COVID-19 and the other seven are asymptomatic, Lee said.
This brings to six the number of people in isolation who have coronavirus symptoms. None of them have required hospitalisation.
There are currently a total of 28 active COVID cases in Cayman.
Since the first case was reported in March, there have been 398 positive cases found in Cayman. The vast majority of those cases have involved travellers entering the islands.
The number of people in isolation, either at a government facility or in their homes, as of Monday, was 691.
See the latest vaccination schedule here.
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Premier is on record establishing the goal of 90% of 80 and older population before reopening. What is the percentage vaccinated of that age group? If that is the goal, why are we not tracking that publicly?
Why are there shots not being given?? There are almost 1500 does from the first batch and we have now gotten another 10,000 more There must be a way to encourage people to get these shots so the island can open and EVERYONE can have a better life