In the past week, T&T ad­min­is­tered on­ly 4,500 dos­es of vac­cines and not the 10,000 to 15,000 ex­pect­ed.

Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh said that the coun­try was not where it need­ed to be with vac­ci­na­tions.

"We are not hap­py with the vac­ci­na­tion fig­ures," he said at Sat­ur­day's Min­istry of Health COVID-19 up­date.

"By now, we should have been touch­ing 500,000 first-dose. We are 415, 826, 30 per cent of the pop­u­la­tion," he said.

Deyals­ingh said that the Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties are now go­ing door-to-door to help bol­ster the num­ber of vac­ci­nat­ed peo­ple.

"If we take up these vac­cines now, in five weeks we should be prob­a­bly hav­ing to re­port no more deaths be­cause you get vac­ci­nat­ed now, you wait three weeks for your sec­ond dose and two weeks to pass. That is how easy it is to bring down our mor­tal­i­ty fig­ures and our ICU and HDU fig­ures," he said.

Last week the coun­try re­port­ed­ly re­ceived a gift of 83,030 dos­es of As­traZeneca vac­cines from Cana­da. Deyals­ingh said some 31,330 of those vac­cines are ex­pir­ing at the end of Au­gust.

"So we have just un­der two to three weeks to get these in­to arms," Deyals­ingh said.

He said 50,700 would ex­pire at the end of Oc­to­ber.

"So it fits in ba­si­cal­ly in the eight to 12-week win­dow that we have be­tween As­traZeneca first dose and sec­ond dose," he said.

How­ev­er, the min­is­ter said Sat­ur­day that 84,000 vac­cines will be al­lo­cat­ed to mass sites through­out the coun­try.

This is what he said:

*To­ba­go will re­ceive 4,000 of these vac­cines and are ex­pect­ed to be­gin their roll­out on Tues­day or Wednes­day.

The Trinidad sites be­gin their roll­out to­mor­row.

*The Pad­dock at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah has been al­lo­cat­ed 3,000 vac­cines, while the NA­PA site has al­so been al­lo­cat­ed 3,000 vac­cines.

*The UTT site in Ch­agua­nas has been al­lo­cat­ed 5,000 dos­es, and the Rac­quet Cen­tre, El So­cor­ro, has been al­lo­cat­ed 4,000 dos­es.

*The San­gre Grande Civic Cen­tre has been giv­en 2,000 dos­es, and the Ma­yaro Re­gion­al Sport­ing Com­plex has been al­lo­cat­ed 1,000 dos­es.

*The site at SAPA has been giv­en 10,000 dos­es, while the Di­vali Na­gar site and the Ato Boldon site have been al­lo­cat­ed 5,000 dos­es each.