WILLEMSTAD - The Health Council in the Netherlands recommends first vaccinating people over 60 and medical risk groups against COVID-19 on Curaçao, Aruba and Sint Maarten.
Initially, only a limited number of vaccines are available. The medical information systems on the islands may not be sufficient to identify all risk groups.
For that reason, the Health Council recommends that at least all people over the age of 60 be vaccinated.
Curaçao can vaccinate its first residents with the corona vaccine in the first quarter of the new year. This is evident from consultations between the various ministers of Health in the Kingdom. Aruba and Sint Maarten also receive vaccines via the Netherlands. How much exactly, and how exactly it will be distributed, has yet to be considered per island. The three islands have all set up a working group to prepare, for example for the storage and distribution of the vaccine.