Friday, December 4, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that 10 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America, including Haiti will receive the future vaccine against Covid-19 free of charge.

This WHO initiative is part of the "Covax" mechanism for the development and equitable distribution of vaccines against Covid-19.

"In our region, we have 27 countries which will pay to acquire the vaccine and 10 countries which will receive the vaccine without paying, because according to economic criteria they are the poorest countries or because their small population has more difficulties of access," explained Arbas Barbosa, Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

Besides Haiti, the 9 other countries benefiting from a free distribution of the future vaccine against Covid-19 are: Bolivia, Dominica, El Salvador, Grenada, French Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia and Saint-Vincent and the Grenadines.

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