HAITIANS CONTINUE TO REFUSE VACCINES

From [HERE] Dr. Lauré Adrien, director general of the Haitian Ministry of Health, warned that Moderna pharmaceutical vaccines could expire because the population does not come to be inoculated. He assured that Haiti expects to receive a third shipment of that compound.

Only 1% of the population has been vaccinated, according to official figures. As of December 21, 2021, only 72,102 people are fully vaccinated, 71,761 have received the two doses of Moderna vaccine, and 341 have received the single dose from Johnson & Johnson.

On December 18, Haiti received 57,600 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines from Denmark and 108,000 doses of the same preparation from the US Government, within the framework of the Covax initiative, run by the WHO.

COVID-19 ALMOST IN FORGETTING

The term physical distancing has completely disappeared from discourse in Haiti. In both public and private institutions, people no longer wear masks and containers for washing hands have disappeared.

As a result, people live in total oblivion of the existence of the disease. Only some commercial banks, supermarkets and stores continue to demand the use of masks, in a context in which even the government authorities speak very little about the disease.

Until December 17, 2021, Haiti had 25,917 confirmed cases of covid-19, 4,844 hospitalized, 765 deaths and 22,666 people treated, according to figures communicated by the Ministry of Public Health.