Caribbean vaccinations Archives - ECS International

Caribbean travel: Covid entry rules, island by island

ed — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:24:05 +0000

Caribbean islands have reopened to international tourism. Most islands have dropped pre-arrival Covid testing for vaccinated travelers, but regulations are still particularly varied when it comes to entry protocols for unvaccinated travelers. Here are the latest developments for travel from the U.S. to each Caribbean country. To make this information easier to understand, we are Read More

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New insights on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the Caribbean

ed — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 21:33:25 +0000

The typical profile of a Caribbean national refusing the vaccine to combat COVID-19 is a person out of formal work and educated to secondary level. This conclusion sums up the finding of a new study on vaccine hesitancy in six Caribbean Community countries. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) commissioned the study while the United States Agency Read More

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Caribbean Pandemic Review of 2021

ed — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 22:34:24 +0000

The Caribbean is two years into the coronavirus pandemic and a lot has happened including the introduction of vaccines, new variants and hard-hitting policies to curb the spread of the virus. Here are some pandemic moments we pretty much will not forget that happened in the Caribbean in 2021: Confirmed COVID-19 cases crossed 2 million COVID-19 cases never stopped increasing in the Caribbean. Read More

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WTO says Caribbean could be site for vaccine production

ed — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 16:13:04 +0000

The Director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said the Caribbean could serve as a production site for goods such as vaccines and that efforts are being made to get manufacturers to invest in the region. “We have to decentralise and we have asked the manufacturers to invest more in developing Read More

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48 Percent Of Caribbean Region Is Immunised Against Covid-19

ed — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:03:09 +0000

AS COVID-19 cases continue to wane in the Caribbean, Pan American Health Organization officials have revealed 48 percent of the region has been fully immunised against the deadly disease. This news was announced at the organization’s weekly webinar by PAHO’s Director Dr Carissa Etienne. Whereas The Bahamas is experiencing a welcomed decrease in reported cases, Read More

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With scant vaccine supplies, the W.H.O. presses Latin America and the Caribbean to hold off on boosters.

ed — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 16:28:32 +0000

Officials from the World Health Organization on Wednesday urged countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to limit administering booster shots and to hold off on vaccinating children, allocating scant doses to the most vulnerable. “In some countries, we have seen vaccine doses reaching all levels of the population before a high percentage of vulnerable” Read More

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Silver linings: Risk reduction center stage as Caribbean recovers

ed — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:17:20 +0000

Cruise ships are steaming back to Caribbean ports, airlines are ramping up flights and the vaccine roll-out is underway but it could still be several years before countries recuperate from the pandemic that has rocked the region, say experts. Despite the deep scars left by the crisis, countries now have a fresh focus on health, Read More

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PAHO concerned about low vax rate in Caribbean & Latin America

ed — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:30:17 +0000

THE Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is reporting that only a quarter of citizens in the Caribbean and Latin America are fully immunised, and that for many access to vaccines is still months away. “While every country in our region has begun administering COVID-19 vaccines, immunisations are following the fault lines of inequality that have Read More

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Vaccinated and unvaccinated travelers are going to different sets of Caribbean islands

ed — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 20:08:48 +0000

Adina Eigen took her first trip to the British Virgin Islands in December 2020. Around that time, it had one of the world’s lowest Covid rates among islands that had reopened. The 42-year-old mother of four from Sands Point, New York, has since returned twice, checking infection rates — and vaccination statistics — before her trips. “The Read More

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Virus slams Cuba as it races to roll out vaccines

ed — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:27:50 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic is slamming Cuba like never before, even as the country races to roll out its home-grown vaccines – the only locally-developed shots being widely used in Latin America. The island had seen far fewer infections that most other Latin American nations over the first year or so of the disease, imposing strict Read More

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