The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, citing increasing cases of COVID-19 in the Caribbean and elsewhere, has asserted that today, 'vaccines are a beacon of hope' to control the pandemic. But she said at her weekly press briefing that vaccines remain out of reach for far too many people in the Americas, with just 18% of people in Latin America and the Caribbean having been fully vaccinated against the virus. Etienne noted that COVID-19 cases are on the rise in the Caribbean, where Cuba, Martinique and the British Virgin Islands are continuing to
