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‘One in four’ high school students get jab - Barbados Today

Barbados is well stocked with supplies of the three main COVID-19 vaccines in use but the campaign to inoculate high school children has barely scratched the surface as only one in four high school children has received their first dose of the Pfizer jab, according to one campaign coordinator. As the new school year opened […]

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