St Vincent and the Grenadines will receive the donation of the COVID-19 vaccine jabs under WHO’s COVAX facility within the upcoming few weeks.
Under the COVAX facility, more than three million are being dispatched to PAHO – Pan American Health Organisation this week to distribute them among the needy nations with a vaccination rate of less than 20 per cent.
The Assistant Director of PAHO – Dr Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr, noted, “COVAX has agreed that for the months of November & December, vaccine allotments will be sent to the countries with the lowest coverage. This will ensure more protection for those countries. We are working, together with COVAX, to have these countries prioritised”.
One thousand eight hundred and nineteen (1819) cases are currently active and sixty-eight (68) persons with COVID-19 have died. Four thousand and nine hundred and ninety-five (4995) cases of COVID-19 and three thousand and one hundred and eight (3108) recoveries have been recorded in St. Vincent and the Grenadines since March 2020.
COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access, which is abbreviated as – COVAX, is a worldwide initiative aimed at equal access to COVID-19 vaccines directed by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and the World Health Organization, founded in the month of April in 2020.
Haiti is among the Caribbean nations, which has the lowest COVID-19 vaccination rate, while Cuba is having the highest in the region.
