Haiti: the vaccine campaign against Covid is slipping
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A doctor inoculates a man with his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Saint Damien hospital, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, July 17, 2021. In Haiti, less than 1% of the population is vaccinated .
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By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
Mikaël Ponge Follow
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Haiti was one of the last countries in the world to start its vaccine campaign against the pandemic.
The first delivery of doses did not arrive in the territory until July.
And after three months, the results are edifying: less than 1% of the population has been vaccinated.
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In three months, only a little more than 27,000 people of Haiti's 11 million inhabitants have been fully vaccinated against Covid.
For Doctor William Pape, the reason is simple: having officially caused the death of only 650 people in a year and a half, the Covid is not perceived as a danger in the country.
At the Ministry of Health, we also know that rumors against the vaccine circulating across the country are one of the reasons for this poor vaccine success.
For lack of people to prick, Haiti is even forced to return its stocks which are about to expire.
The explanations of
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