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Bolivian businesses battered by pandemic encouraging widespread vaccination 2 minutes read
By Gabriel Romano
La Paz/Cochabamba, Bolivia, Jul 9 (EFE).- Several Bolivian businesses hard hit by the coronavirus crisis see a widespread vaccine rollout as their lifeline and are running different promotions to encourage customers to get the shots.
One establishment is promising a courtesy cup of the “world’s most delicious coffee” to anyone who shows their vaccine card, while others are offering customers a free ice cream or a 50 percent discount on a sauna session.
In tandem with those strategies, the Chamber of Gastronomic Business Owners of La Paz (Cadeg) has made a big push to vaccinate restaurant personnel as a way to show that the food-service industry is taking the pandemic seriously and that the risk of contagion is very low, its president, Ernesto Olivares, told Efe.
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July 9, 2021
By Mohammed Lamorde
Dr. Lamorde is an expert on the management of infectious diseases in developing countries. He is the head of the global health security program at the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.
Early in the pandemic, Uganda bought itself precious time at great economic cost to protect its people from Covid-19.
There were lockdowns, international travel was restricted, and border screenings were introduced to prevent entry of the coronavirus. Cases of Covid-19 identified at borders or in communities were isolated, and people who had been in contact with those infected were quarantined and checked on by public health authorities.
Report filed by Jessica Russell – News Reporter.
Health Minister Sir Molwyn Joseph says since Antigua and Barbuda rolled out its vaccination campaign in February, the country has been weathering the COVID- 19 storm better.
His comments come in light of the revelation from the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that over 99 percent of recent COVID- 19- related deaths are among the unvaccinated.
However, Minister Joseph says people’s actions can be problematic.
Antigua and Barbuda, like other countries around the world, has had to contend with vaccine hesitancy.
Prime Minister Hon. Gaston Browne has indicated this is emerging as one of the most significant challenges of our times.