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Haiti, Hemisphere s COVID Exception, Sees Alarming Spike — And Still Lacks Vaccines

A Haitian hospital worker in Port-au-Prince carries an oxygen tank for COVID-19 patients this week. Haiti s COVID-19 case and death counts remain relatively low but much of that count has increased in the past month and the country has yet to receive vaccines. Haiti has been the COVID-19 exception in Latin America and the Caribbean, with one of the region’s lowest per-capita case and death counts. But that’s suddenly changing and the country is caught without vaccines. The country has reported only 16,000 COVID-19 cases. That’s a tenth of the tally in nearby Cuba, which has roughly the same population as Haiti. But 15% of Haiti’s cases have come in just the past month. So have a fifth of its 342 COVID deaths.

PAHO Director calls for intensified health response in Haiti to reverse rapidly deteriorating COVID conditions

PAHO Director calls for intensified health response in Haiti to reverse rapidly deteriorating COVID conditions PAHO is assisting with vaccine delivery, scaled up testing, and increased PPE for health workers. Elsewhere in the Caribbean and Latin America, pandemic accelerates. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa F. Etienne warned that the COVID-19 response in Haiti must be scaled up dramatically to cope with sharply escalating cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in recent weeks. We call on partners and organizations working in Haiti to urgently reinforce the response to COVID-19, Dr. Etienne said at her weekly media briefing. The country will need additional health capacity, as well as support to embrace preventive measures required to curb transmission. Both will be decisive in the coming weeks. There is no time to waste.

PAHO Director welcomes U S Administration s COVID-19 vaccine dose-sharing plan

PAHO Director welcomes U.S. Administration s COVID-19 vaccine dose-sharing plan WASHINGTON, D.C. - Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa F. Etienne today thanked the United States Government for its commitment to a COVID-19 vaccine dose-sharing plan through COVAX. The actions announced today by the White House are a good step forward in our drive to get vaccines into the arms of our people in Latin America and the Caribbean, Dr. Etienne said. We are grateful for this dose-sharing initiative and encourage other countries with surplus vaccines to follow the lead of the United States. The United States said it plans to send the first tranche of 25 million doses, including 19 million procured through COVAX, to countries around the world. This includes approximately 6 million for South and Central America to the following countries: Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Haiti, and oth

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