By Syndicated Content
Jun 28, 2021 | 4:00 PM
ASUNCION (Reuters) â The United States said on Monday it will donate one million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to Paraguay, offering relief to the South American country whose immunization program is moving slowly amid a new wave of COVID-19 cases.
State Department official Victoria Nuland announced during an official visit to Asuncion that the vaccines should arrive in Paraguay âin a few weeks.â
âWe are going to donate one million doses of Pfizer vaccines to Paraguay,â said Nuland, who also pledged help from Washington to accelerate delivery of doses through the global COVAX vaccine sharing program, co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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ASUNCION, June 28 (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it will donate one million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech (PFE.N), coronavirus vaccine to Paraguay, offering relief to the South American country whose immunization program is moving slowly amid a new wave of COVID-19 cases.
State Department official Victoria Nuland announced during an official visit to Asuncion that the vaccines should arrive in Paraguay in a few weeks. We are going to donate one million doses of Pfizer vaccines to Paraguay, said Nuland, who also pledged help from Washington to accelerate delivery of doses through the global COVAX vaccine sharing program, co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Latin America reports more COVID-19 deaths, infections
Brazil reports over 1,800 coronavirus deaths over past day, Mexico 341, Argentina 297, Colombia 509, Peru 238
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BOGOTA, Colombia
Countries across Latin America reported new COVID-19 infections and fatalities late on Saturday, according to official data.
Brazil
Over the past day, a total of 1,899 people lost their lives to the novel coronavirus in Brazil, bringing the tally to 448,208, according to figures from the country s Health Ministry.
The number of infections rose to over 16.47 million, with 76,490 new cases nationwide.
Sao Paulo stands as the region most affected by the outbreak, with over 3.1 million cases and 107,497 deaths.
There have been over 14.4 million recoveries in Brazil, the most populous South American nation which has had the most COVID-19 cases after the US and India.
Sequera insisted people s awareness was vital
Paraguay s Health Ministry Friday admitted further restrictions are under consideration after a strict lockdown and other measures imposed during the Easter weekend failed to yield the desired results regarding a slowdown in the spread of the covid-19 disease.
The Ministry released an epidemiological update and warned that the Easter quarantine was not as successful as expected and therefore new measures were to be announced shortly.
Health Surveillance Director Guillermo Sequera explained that “the situation is really critical, all measures must be strengthened. We are aware that all the measures and guidelines that come out from the Ministry of Health will not have strength if they are not an accompanied by the people: The awareness of maintaining a well-ventilated environment, the use of a mask, maintaining a safe distance from people that they are not from the work nucleus or the family nucleus..