The British Virgin Islands (BVI) will be receiving the final shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the United Kingdom today, Wednesday. According to Health Minister Marlon Penn, the vaccines were guaranteed under the provisions of a revised Memorandum of Understanding between the UK Health Security Agency and
Two Caribbean nations received 10,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines from Taiwan last week. According to Taipei Times, Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in an official statement was to help Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Taiwan's two Caribbean allies, combat the pandemic. Saint
Release - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has announced the selection of two centres in Argentina and Brazil as regional hubs for the development and production of mRNA-based vaccines in Latin America in a bid to tackle COVID-19 and future infectious disease challenges. The Bio-Manguinhos
UN NEWS—While 80 per cent of citizens in high and upper-middle income nations have had a dose of COVID-19 vaccine, that figure stands at just 20 per cent for those living below the top tiers, according to a joint statement issued by UN and partner
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has made another clarion call to the residents of Latin America and the Caribbean to get vaccinated amid the emergence of new coronavirus variants. PAHO Director Carissa F. Etienne warned in a weekly briefing that 75% of the population in
The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has expressed her woes over the number of Caribbean residents who refuse to take their vaccines against COVID-19. In a recent CNBC article, PAHO director Dr. Carissa Etienne, who serves as the overseer for WHO's Latin America
UN NEWS—Three new candidate drugs are being tested in the latest phase of global Solidarity clinical trials to find effective treatments against COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday. The therapies — artesunate, imatinib and infliximab — will be tested on hospitalized COVID-19 patients in 52
As the world braces itself for another wave of the COVID-19 infections, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has urged local governments to remain vigilant and steadfast in enforcing public health measures and surveillance. A number of countries in Central America, the Caribbean and some South
UN News - Millions more of COVID vaccines need to be donated now to save lives and help the UN health agency reach the key global target of having 70 per cent of all national populations vaccinated, by the middle of 2022. That was one of
UN News - Lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines should be considered “global public goods”, the UN chief told journalists on Friday, covering the G7 Summit of leading industrialized nations taking place in the United Kingdom. Speaking via videolink in London, Secretary-General António Guterres said there was no other way of
