Haiti – FLASH : Haiti worst vaccination fee within the Caribbean and Latin America
11/12/2021 09:04:47
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Carissa Etienne, Director of the Pan American Well being Group (PAHO), the physique in command of regional public well being insurance policies, detailing the pandemic state of affairs throughout her weekly digital press convention from Washington, stated “PAHO is doing every part in its energy to hurry up vaccination within the area.”
PAHO has to this point delivered some 72 million vaccines all through the area, together with 1.6 million this week. 55% of the inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean is already totally vaccinated in opposition to Covid-19 and though there are nonetheless 20 nations that haven’t but reached 40% vaccination (goal set by the World Group Well being by the top of 2021), Etienne estimates that they are going to attain the goal by the top of the month excluding 6 nations.
For the Caribbean, these are : Jamaica (38%), Saint Lucia (26%), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (21%) and Haiti (0.59%) and for Latin America Guatemala (24%) and Nicaragua (38%)
Carissa Etienne stated she was significantly involved concerning the state of affairs in Haiti given the low vaccination fee, a state of affairs that she had already discovered unacceptable final September and reported to the Haitian authorities https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34766-haiti-covid-19-paho-considers-totally-unacceptable-the-low-vaccination-rate-in-haiti.html
Let’s recall that the Ministry of Well being in Haiti after having acknowledged the failure of the vaccination final October and returned a number of hundred thousand unused vaccines earlier than expiry to the COVAX program https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34990-haiti-covid-vaccination-failure-haiti-will-his-exchange-expired-vaccines.html the state of affairs has hardly modified regardless of a brand new donation of 100,000 vaccines.
189,722 doses of the “Spikevax” vaccine from the MODERNA Laboratory have been injected in complete in Haiti since July 16, 2021, the date of the primary injection.
120,228 Haitians (1.03% of the inhabitants) acquired a primary dose of vaccine and 69,494 persons are totally vaccinated (2 doses, 0.59% of the inhabitants) https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-35447-haiti-diaspora-covid-19-daily-bulletin-630.html by means of 149 open vaccination facilities https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-35051-haiti-covid-19-list-of-149-vaccination-centers-open-in-the-country.html . Replace 5 December 2021 newest data out there (supply MSPP)
Notice that the very low variety of Covid-19 screening assessments in Haiti 146,922 in complete (as of December 7, 2021) since March 19, 2020, doesn’t statistically make it attainable to make a consultant estimate of the state of affairs within the nation, which ends up in a low variety of day by day confirmed instances, a largely underestimated evaluation, particularly because the measures to keep away from the unfold of the corronavirus (masks, distance, hand washing and vaccination) are completely uncared for by the inhabitants. Recall that 76% of the Haitian inhabitants refuses to be vaccinated in accordance with a survey by “Safitek Analysis”
Investigation into the refusal to be vaccinated in Haiti : https://www.haitilibre.com/docs/Safitek-COVID-19-2021-EN.pdf
See additionally :
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-35338-haiti-news-zapping.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-35051-haiti-covid-19-list-of-149-vaccination-centers-open-in-the-country.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34990-haiti-covid-vaccination-failure-haiti-will-his-exchange-expired-vaccines.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34766-haiti-covid-19-paho-considers-totally-unacceptable-the-low-vaccination-rate-in-haiti.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-35447-haiti-diaspora-covid-19-daily-bulletin-630.html
SL/ HaitiLibre