Haiti gets 500,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses; its first of the pandemic

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Haiti gets 500,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses; its first of the pandemic

Homes at the Bois Patate neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jul 12, 2021. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Haiti on Wednesday received its first COVID-19 vaccine doses as the country battles a spike in cases and deaths.

The Pan American Health Organization said that the United States donated the 500,000 doses via the United Nations’ COVAX program for low-income countries.Spokeswoman Nadia Peimbert-Rappaport told the Associated Press that the shipment was of the Moderna vaccine. “The arrival of these vaccines is quite promising, and now the challenge is to get them to the people that need them the most,” the regional health agency's director, Dr Carissa Etienne, said in a statement.The doses will be administered for free, said Dr Marie Greta Roy Clement, Haiti’s minister of public health and population.

Haiti has reported more than 19,300 confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 480 deaths as it fights a wave of COVID-19 cases that has forced hospitals to turn away patients. Experts believe that those numbers are widely underreported since there is scant testing in Haiti, which has more than 11 million people.

 

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