COVID-19 is slowly retreating across most of North, Central and South America, the Pan American Health Organization says.
BRASILIA -- COVID-19 is slowly retreating across most of North, Central and South America, the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday, reporting that last week the continent's death and infection figures were the lowest in over a year.
However, Paraguay saw a doubling of coronavirus cases in the last week and Belize a sharp jump in COVID-19-related deaths, the regional health agency said in a briefing. Nearly 44% of people in Latin America and the Caribbean have completed their COVID-19 immunizations, thanks largely to donations, made bilaterally or through the WHO-led COVAX facility.
He appealed to leaders of the G20 major economies meeting this weekend in Rome to do more to hasten equitable distribution of vaccines through donations, saying no country would be safe while others were still unprotected against the coronavirus.