Following Haiti’s decision, the COVAX mechanism confirmed this Wednesday that the returned doses will be allocated elsewhere to “minimize any potential waste.”
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Haitian authorities will return “hundreds of thousands” of vaccines about to expire to the United States, the country that donated them, while continuing to record one of the lowest vaccination figures in the world, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). below 10 percent.
Following Haiti’s decision, the COVAX mechanism confirmed this Wednesday that the returned doses will be assigned to other places to “minimize any potential waste,” reports the Bloomberg agency.
According to the Haitian authorities, the refund will be in exchange for vaccines that expire until next year, so that the Administration – immersed in a political crisis – can establish the best method to immunize citizens, something that by the moment has not succeeded, pick up ‘Le Nouvelliste’.
In July, the United States donated half a million doses of Moderna’s vaccine to the Caribbean country through COVAX, of which fewer than 66,800 have been administered, according to the Haitian Ministry of Health. In total, only 20,354 people of the 11.4 million inhabitants have completed their vaccination scheme, while more than 22,700 have been infected and almost 650 have died from the disease.
“A study carried out on the coronavirus reveals that 87 percent of the population does not know of any confirmed case of COVID-19, and much less people who have died as a result of complications related to this infection,” said the president of the commission. multisectoral for the management of the pandemic, Jean William Pape.
“The Haitian people believe in what they see,” he added, justifying the low vaccination rate in the country.
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