{"id":273298,"date":"2021-08-30T21:35:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=273298"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T13:15:29","slug":"skerrit-admonishes-political-leaders-not-to-remain-silent-on-importance-of-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/covid-19\/skerrit-admonishes-political-leaders-not-to-remain-silent-on-importance-of-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"Skerrit admonishes political leaders not to ‘remain silent’ on importance of vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Skerrit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is urging political leaders to promote the importance of vaccination to their constituents.<\/p>\n

In making the appeal during his weekly Annou Pale Talk Show over the weekend, the prime minister gave the assurance that there are enough vaccines to vaccinate the Dominican population.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to realize that Dominica is not immune; this is a worldwide pandemic and to what extent are we going to take responsibility for getting Dominica out of the surge so that economic activity can resume in earnest?” he asked. \u201cMany of the people or the same people who are most vocal about the government\u2019s response to Covid-19, are also astonished anti-vaccinated people, but evidence shows one way out of this pandemic and one way of giving us a fair chance to fight this pandemic is vaccination and \u00a0I want to also say to political leaders that you cannot remain silent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Skerrit stated that political leaders here and abroad should not remain silent, hoping that there is some political benefit by not encouraging persons to get vaccinated when they themselves have taken the vaccine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf something is good for you it must be good for the people whom you are representing,\u201d he said. \u201cI cannot come to the nation and tell the people to take the vaccine when I have not been vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that political leaders who purposefully side step their responsibility to encourage their constituents not to get vaccinated must not be accepted, \u201cand we have to call them out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skerrit stressed that the main focus of his government is the health, social and economic well-being of Dominicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is urging political leaders to promote the importance of vaccination to their constituents. 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