COVID vaccines to be deployed to Caribbean countries in March Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Assistant Director Dr. Jarbas Barbosa said the COVAX facility will start deploying COVID-19 vaccines to Caribbean countries in March. “We cannot provide you with the date and the amount of doses for each country,” Barbosa said during a PAHO press briefing. “We need to make this kind of estimation for 190 countries that are a part of COVAX. But, the deployment of the vaccines through COVAX will be made [with] equitable access. “So, we’ll be deploying these vaccines to the countries in the Caribbean in March. We have an initiative that’s called the first wave initiative that will provide a very limited amount of the vaccine in February to some countries. This is kind of a pilot project in these countries.”