PORT OF SPAIN — Brittany Baptise is a nurse at the Scarborough General Hospital in Trinidad and Tobago. Today is her day off and she
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BVI Ministry of Health Seeks To Contain Gastroenteritis Outbreak
ROAD TOWN, Tortola — The British Virgin Islands Ministry of Health and Social Development has issued a health alert as a result of an increased
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IDB Mobilizes $1 Billion For COVID-19 Vaccine Financing In The Caribbean
WASHINGTON — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced Wednesday that it will mobilize $1 billion to help Latin American and Caribbean countries acquire and distribute
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New UN Report Warns Of Malnutrition Problem In The Caribbean, Latin America
SANTIAGO, Chile — A new United Nations report released here Wednesday shows the territorial inequality of malnutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report
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WHO Says Vaccinating 20% of Latin America And Caribbean Will Cost More Than $2 Billion
BRASILIA — Vaccinating 20 percent of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean against COVID-19 will cost more than $2 billion but low income
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Some 11.3 Million People in Latin America And The Caribbean Infected With COVID-19, 400,000 Deaths
BRASILIA — The death toll in Latin America and the Caribbean from the novel coronavirus rose to 422,102 on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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WHO British Medical Expert Agrees With Donald Trump: Lockdowns Are Crashing The World Economy
LONDON — The UK’s envoy to the World Health Organization is begging world governments to stop locking down every time coronavirus infections start to spike because
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WHO Says It Is Worried About COVID-19 Spikes In Jamaica And 12 Other Caribbean States
KINGSTON — The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about spikes in COVID-19 cases spikes in countries that had managed outbreaks effectively, such as Cuba
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18,000 Coronavirus Cases In Just 5 Caribbean Countries
SANTO DOMINGO — Five Caribbean countries continued to show an uptick in coronavirus cases Sunday to reach 17,906, according to a News Americas analysis. But
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Dominican Republic Has 8,235 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and 346 Deaths
SANTO DOMINGO — There are now at least 8,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in a single Caribbean country, which saw a whopping 281 new cases today.
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