PAHO is working closely with all these countries, especially Haiti, Nicaragua, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, & Guatemala, which are still below 20% coverage
🔸Vaccine inequity remains the biggest barrier to reaching our coverage targets
At least 32 countries have already reached the @WHO’s target of 40 percent vaccination coverage, and several more are on track to reach and surpass it by the end of the year.
To date, 1.2 billion COVID vaccine doses 💉 have been administered across the Americas, and 46 percent of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean has been fully vaccinated.
Quite the opposite – the decline in cases and deaths shows that our approach is working, and it is critical for all of us to stay the course until everyone 👩🏽🦱👴🏽👩🏿🧑🏻 is vaccinated 💉 and protected from the virus.
However, Barbados continues to report its highest number of COVID-related infections 🦠 and deaths since the start of the pandemic, and there are concerning shortages of hospital 🏥 capacity in the Dominican Republic and Trinidad and Tobago.
In all countries that are publishing data 📊 about the vaccination status of the hospitalized cases, a very high percentage of those hospitalized have not been immunized against the virus 🦠
