Coronavirus cases spike in Haiti with vaccines yet to be delivered June 9, 2021, 5:15 pm
A hospital emplyee wearing protective gear as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, transports oxygen tanks, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Joseph Odelyn/AP)
Haiti is trying to deal with a rise in coronavirus infections at a time when vaccinations have not yet arrived in the country.
The few hospitals treating Covid cases have been so swamped in recent days that they report turning away patients, while plans to open another hospital to treat the infected have been delayed.
Official figures remain relatively low for a nation of more than 11 million people: Just 2,271 cases and 62 deaths have been recorded over the past month in government data collected by Johns Hopkins University.