Today just 37% of people in Latin America and the Caribbean have been fully vaccinated 🩹 against #COVID19
In South America, while countries are continuing to see a drop ⬇️ in infections, Chile is seeing a jump in new cases driven primarily by outbreaks in urban centers, like the Metropolitan Region of Santiago and the port cities of Coquimbo and Antofagasta.
In Central America, while cases 🦠are decreasing throughout the subregion, Costa Rica continues to see high rates of hospitalization 🏥and ICU bed use. Hospitalizations have also jumped by two thirds in Belize.
Across the Caribbean, infections are going down overall, although Cuba and Bermuda continue to report high rates of new infections and Barbados saw cases increase 📈 by nearly 75% over the last week.
In the state of Alaska, which today reports the US’s worst COVID outbreak 🦠, emergency rooms are overwhelmed with COVID patients and doctors face difficult choices about how to allocate hospital beds 🛌
Many southwestern Canadian provinces are reaching their highest hospitalization 🏥 and ICU peaks since the beginning of the pandemic.
In North America, while cases are down 📉 in the US and Canada, Mexico is reporting a jump in new infections 🦠
But national data doesn’t tell us the whole story. If we look deeper, we see that local trends remain worrisome.
For the last month, we’ve seen COVID 🦠 infections drop throughout the region, even if cases remain high.
Over the last week, nearly 1.2 million COVID-19 cases and 24,000 COVID-related deaths were reported in the Americas 🌎
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🔊 PAHO Press Conference on #COVID19 🦠 in the Americas 🌎
🗓 October 6, 2021 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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