BRASILIA—The Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday that COVID-19 cases are dropping overall in North America but remain high in the American Midwest, Alaska, and Canada's Northwest Territories, where infection rates are 10 times the national average.
In the Caribbean, Barbados is reporting the highest number of COVID cases and deaths since the pandemic started, with a five-fold increase in COVID infections over the last month, PAHO said. So far, only nine countries in the region have vaccinated 50% of their people, while six - Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Haiti, Guatemala and Nicaragua - have yet to reach 20% vaccination coverage, according to PAHO.
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