Vaccine Production Potential For Barbados

•  Barbados and other countries in the world have the potential to become locations for the manufacturing and or bottling of vaccines. Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley raised this point, as she addressed a press briefing on the first day of the 15th Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD 15), presently under way at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. 
• “We can only ask that all of our actions move to a point of vaccine equity.  And we can only ask that there also be an urgency about identifying locations such as ours and others in other parts of the world to become locations for the manufacturing and or bottling of vaccines, so as to ensure a ready capacity to distribute to those most in need,” Ms. Mottley indicated. 
• The Prime Minister made it clear that she did not believe it was impossible for vaccine manufacturing and bottling plants to be made available throughout every region in the world “to ensure the shortest distance to people’s arms”. 
• “We are at a point where the pandemic will finish when we decide as a people globally that it must finish.  And until such time, we will continue to have persons being affected by it. And we are in the race against further mutations and variants that may well be worse than what we see in Delta, which is bad enough,” she cautioned.

(Source: GIS)