Despite our progress, vaccination 🩹 remains uneven in Latin America and the Caribbean.
A worrisome sign is that today, more than one in four people across the Americas have yet to receive a single dose of protection.
Our region 🌎 has some of the highest COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the world.
However, the Americas are the most unequal region in the world.
Thanks to the hard-fought efforts of countries throughout the Americas 🌎– & the generous support of donors like the US, Canada & Spain that helped our region secure doses –63% of people across Latin America & the Caribbean have been fully vaccinated against #COVID19
Today I want to offer an update on one key component of our region’s COVID response: vaccination 🩹
These trends show that we must continue to sustain every part of our COVID response.
🔸 Vaccinations
🔸 testing
🔸 and continuing public health measures like mask wearing and social distancing remain crucial.
Surges continue across Central and South America, where Chile and Brazil posted record numbers of daily cases 📈
Most of the new cases were reported in North America, which saw more than 4️⃣ million new infections.
Other islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe, are seeing COVID 🦠spread rapidly among young and unvaccinated people.
Deaths increased ⬆️ for the fourth consecutive week in all subregions, showing an increase of nearly 33% over the previous week.
In the Caribbean, deaths have more than doubled in Cuba, the Bahamas, and Antigua and Barbuda.
Last week, the Region of the Americas 🌎 reported more than 7 million new COVID cases and more than 34,000 COVID-related deaths.
However, the rise in infections seems to be slowing down in places hit earliest by the Omicron variant 🦠
