-Deputy Prime Minister Steven Obeegadoo highlighted that Government and the Private Sector must work in close collaboration to ensure that a maximum number of Mauritians from the private sector can participate in the vaccination programme and which will in turn help the economy kick off again.- The Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Housing and Land Use Planning, and Minister of Tourism, Mr Steven Obeegadoo, was speaking during the daily press briefing of the National Communication Committee on COVID-19 at the New Treasury Building in Port Louis.
-Some 74 000 persons have already been vaccinated as at date, and more than 8 000 persons are being vaccinated daily in all vaccination centres and private clinics.
-Priority is being given to those who cannot work from home, who have a Work Access Permit (WAP), as well as those persons exempted from having the WAP such as taxi drivers. Planters, bus drivers, fishermen, carers, farmers, dentists and shop owners, among others are also on the priority list.
-Necessary actions are already being taken for Officers of the public sector.
-Business Mauritius is working in collaboration with nine of its partners so as to ensure that front liners in the private sector receive the vaccine.
-The Economic Development Board has also put in place an electronic platform (https://vaccination.edbmauritius.org) as well as a hotline (203 38 00) so that persons having the WAP can register to participate in the vaccination campaign.
-Arrangements have been made with the National Transport Corporation so as to ensure that persons willing to receive the vaccine can go to vaccination centres around the island.
Current situation in Mauritius
– The Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Kailesh Jagutpal, highlighted that the number of positive COVID-19 cases has now reached 150, with eight local cases detected in the last 24 hours.
– Out of the four new cases, three have been detected through contact tracing and one through a COVID testing centre. The contact tracing exercise still ongoing and is efficient as positive cases are being detected in quarantine centres.
-368 PCR tests have been carried out in laboratories, out of which 73 tests from contact tracing, and all of them are negative.
-Special exemption has been granted to autistic children during the lockdown as they will be allowed to go out for one hour with their parents every day within a radius of 500 meters from where they live while respecting all sanitary measures.

Source : Government Information Service

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