‘Cautionary tale’: Haiti sees COVID surge as it awaits vaccines
Al Jazeera
Hospitals are being stretched to their limits amid a rise in cases while Haiti has not yet received any vaccine doses.
As the coronavirus hit countries across the Americas hard for more than a year, Haiti had reported relatively few cases and deaths, allowing the country to shutter COVID-19 treatment centres for lack of patients. But now, as some wealthy nations around the world are moving into a post-pandemic phase thanks to extensive vaccination campaigns, Haiti is grappling with its first serious outbreak of COVID-19. The country, which earlier hesitated to accept its allotment of free vaccines through the United Nations-backed COVAX mechanism over safety and logistical concerns, has yet to administer a single jab of coronavirus vaccines.
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