Following calls from the public for top tier public officials to get the COVID-19 jab, Health Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton announced that he would be getting the AstraZeneca jab later today.
Confirmed in a press release on the matter, Tufton is expected to get the jab at 2:00 p.m. at the Spanish Town Hospital.
More than 17,000 persons in Jamaica have received the COVID-19 vaccines since the rollout of the inoculation program which began a week ago.
Health care workers, the security forces and the elderly were among the first to receive the vaccine since inoculation started on March 10.
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