Prime Minister Andrew Holness has promised that the government will be maintaining a transparent and efficient COVID-19 vaccination programme that will prioritise those most vulnerable to the infectious and deadly disease. 

The first doses of vaccines are to arrive this week and a further breakdown of the vaccination programme is to be outlined then.

“We would like the public to be assured that at our cabinet meeting last night we settled on some fundamental principles, as to how the vaccines will be delivered,” he said during this afternoon’s hybrid press briefing from Jamaica House.

“Principle number one is that the vaccines must be delivered on a basis of equity, meaning that those who need it the most- those who are most vulnerable- those are the persons who should receive it first,” he said.

He insisted that there will be ‘no skipping the line’ and warned public officials, including ministers, not to interfere in the schedule of the roll out.

“Nobody must call any minister or any political figure to jump the line for vaccination. The public must be assured that there is no favouritism in vaccination,” he warned, pointing out that there will be consequences for those who fail to abide.

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