Haiti will receive a vaccine against Covid-19 free of charge from the World Health Organization (WHO), announced José Luis Soto, Director of Communications at the Embassy of Haiti in the Dominican Republic.

Soto explained that Haiti had been selected on the basis of economic criteria and difficulties of access and alongside 8 other Latin American countries : Bolivia, Dominica, the Grenadines, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent, El Salvador , Grenada, Guyana, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Recall that on January 8 the Dominican President Luis Abinader had indicated during a lunch with the directors of the media that all foreigners in an irregular migratory situation who are on the Dominican territory will not be vaccinated against the Covid-19 with doses of vaccines purchased by the Dominican Government. Abinader said that for all those affected who are illegally in the country, the World Health Organization will have to provide vaccines at its expense.

The Ambassador of Haiti in the Dominican Republic, Smith Agustín refused to comment on the decision of the Dominican Government not to vaccinate Haitians and other foreigners in an irregular migratory situation...

S/ HaitiLibre