COVID-19 cases dropping in North, South America, health agency says

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BRASILIA: The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday (Oct 13) that COVID-19 cases are dropping overall in North America but remain high in the American Midwest, Alaska, and Canada\u0027s Northwest Territories, where infection rates are 10 times the national average. Infections are also droppi

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-19 cases and deaths since the pandemic started, with a five-fold increase in COVID-19 infections over the last month, PAHO said. So far, only nine countries in the region have vaccinated 50 per cent of their people, while six - Jamaica, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Haiti, Guatemala and Nicaragua - have yet to reach 20 per cent vaccination coverage, according to PAHO.

 

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