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Haiti - FLASH : Haiti accepts AstraZeneca vaccine proposed by WHO 20/05/2021 09:17:11
A confirmation that comes after Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, head of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) announced that President Jovenel Moïse had informed the WHO that Haiti would accept this vaccine, the day after a statement from the Head of State, alarmed by a significant rebound of Covid-19 in the country (+454 new cases the first two weeks of May, with a more marked increase in the second week). The Ministry of Public Health addressed a letter to GAVI, the Geneva-based public-private vaccine alliance that runs the COVAX program with WHO confirming that Haiti has agreed to receive the vaccine doses available for Haiti. Recall that last April, Haiti had "refused" the offer of the WHO to provide an initial donation of 760,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-33423-haiti-flash-haiti-refuses-a-donation-of-756-000-doses-of-the-who-astrazeneca-vaccine.html for fear that the population will reject it after the bad press orchestrated around this vaccine in Europe due to some rare case of atypical thrombosis which would be linked to this vaccine (which is not the only one concerned). Find out more about COVAX : Covax is an initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO) is the result of an extraordinary and unique global collaboration, with more than two-thirds of the world engaged (Governments, World Health Organizations, laboratories, scientists, the private sector, civil society and philanthropy), with the aim of providing innovative and equitable access to COVID-19 diagnostics, treatments and vaccines regardless of people's wealth. COVAX has the largest and most diverse portfolio of COVID-19 vaccines in the world, and as such represents the world's best hope for an early end to this pandemic. So far COVAX has shipped more than 36 million doses of vaccine to 86 countries as of April 5, according to the UN spokesperson. See also : https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-33715-haiti-flash-the-brazilian-and-english-variants-detected-in-haiti.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-33702-haiti-covid-19-dr-pape-wants-the-government-to-reconsider-its-position-on-the-astrazeneca-vaccine.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-33656-haiti-covid-19-haiti-is-still-not-ready-to-receive-vaccines.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-33473-haiti-covid-19there-is-no-crisis-between-the-who-and-haiti.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-33495-haiti-covid-19-the-refusal-of-the-astrazeneca-vaccine-donation-could-cost-haiti-millions-of-dollars.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-33448-haiti-health-the-minister-of-health-wants-another-vaccine-than-astrazeneca.html https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-33423-haiti-flash-haiti-refuses-a-donation-of-756-000-doses-of-the-who-astrazeneca-vaccine.html S/ HaitiLibre
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