Palau on track to vaccination

PALAU health officials said they are on track to conduct its first COVID-19 vaccination by January and according to the Center for Disease Control website ,the nation will get its Moderna allocation, simultaneous with Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) this week.

The US Food and Drug Administration last week authorised the second COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.

Dr Emais Roberts, Palau Health Minister earlier said that Moderna is more suitable for the nation because it doesn’t need cold storage.

Gaafar Uherbelau Ministry of Health’s Emergency Operation Center’s (EOC) Deputy Incident Commander said that first batch of vaccines will be given to healthcare workers first, and then frontline workers, government workers, 18 or older with underlying conditions and the 65 and older.