Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government insists the country has low numbers of cases and deaths from the pandemic. A grassroots group is working to reveal the true impact is far worse.
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A man walks by a mobile health clinic displaying a picture of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (right) and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, in Managua on April 14, 2020. The government claims to be successfully combating the pandemic but health workers and critics say the toll is likely higher. Inti Ocon/AFP via Getty Images
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A man walks by a mobile health clinic displaying a picture of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (right) and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, in Managua on April 14, 2020. The government claims to be successfully combating the pandemic but health workers and critics say the toll is likely higher.
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A Health official proclaims to the senior citizens: “Thanks to this government’s political good will, we’ll be giving you the Covishield vaccine.”
On Friday, April 16
th, my wife Desiree and I went to a Health Center in Managua for our first dose of the COVID vaccine. We’re both over sixty, and we’d be receiving the Covishield vaccine, donated to Nicaragua by the government of India.
It was our second attempt. The day before, we’d arrived at 3:00 p.m., an hour before the clinic closes. However, they’d run out of vaccines for the day. The same was true at the German-Nicaraguan Hospital, where we went next, and at the Bertha Calderon Hospital. “More people came today than during the first days,” a health worker explained.