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Haiti - Covid : Vaccination failure, Haiti will his exchange expired vaccines
14/10/2021 10:28:04
After receiving from the COVAX program, on July 14, a donation of 500,000 doses of "Spikevax" vaccine (official name) from the MODERNA Laboratory https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34237-haiti-covid-500-000-vaccines-in-haiti-75-of-haitians-do-not-want-to-be-vaccinated.html , the optimism of the Ministry of Health fell while only 95,732 doses of vaccine were injected in total in Haiti since July 16, 2021, date of the first injection. 26,694 people have been fully vaccinated (2 doses) as of October 10, 2021 (latest data available) https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34985-haiti-diaspora-covid-19-daily-bulletin-572.html
Faced with this poor record, Haiti will return to the COVAX mechanism more than 250,000 vaccines which will expire on November 6, said a source from the Ministry of Health because there is no possibility that they will be used in Haiti, the country in America with the lowest rate of vaccinated population, which is due both to the limited capacity to administer the doses and the refusal of 76% of the population to receive the vaccine Download the survey of "Safitek Research" : https://www.haitilibre.com/docs/Safitek-COVID-19-2021-EN.pdf . Situation that the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) finds unacceptable https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34766-haiti-covid-19-paho-considers-totally-unacceptable-the-low-vaccination-rate-in-haiti.html .
Lauré Adrien, the Director General of the Ministry of Health, said Haiti will receive other vaccines that will be usable until 2022, as part of the COVAX mechanism, in exchange for those returned.
List of 128 vaccination centers open in Haiti (and hours) by department : (update October 11, 2021)
https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-34973-icihaiti-covid-19-list-of-128-vaccination-centers-open-in-the-country.html
Download the survey from "Safitek Research" (PDF) : https://www.haitilibre.com/docs/Safitek-COVID-19-2021-EN.pdf
See also :
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34985-haiti-diaspora-covid-19-daily-bulletin-572.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34766-haiti-covid-19-paho-considers-totally-unacceptable-the-low-vaccination-rate-in-haiti.html
https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34237-haiti-covid-500-000-vaccines-in-haiti-75-of-haitians-do-not-want-to-be-vaccinated.html
S/ HaitiLibre
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