Tag: World Health Organization (WHO)

U.S. Airlines Add COVID-19 Testing to Popular Caribbean Destinations

CANCUN — U.S. airlines are adding flights, and in some cases COVID-19 testing programs, for travel to Mexico and the Caribbean, a region central to carriers’ strategies to tap into pockets of holiday demand before a vaccine makes its way around the world. Beachside resort destinations in areas like Cancun are the only spots that […]

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.       Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Argentina have suffered the most COVID-19 fatalities in the region.  Argentina  President Alberto Fernandez announced Monday that Argentina will buy 25 million doses […]

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 he says the yo-yo effect of these stops and starts is crashing the world economy. Dr. David Nabarro lambasted the use of lockdowns as a “primary means of controlling this […]

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 and Jamaica, and 11 Caribbean states that have moved from moderate to intense transmission, its regional director Carissa Etienne said on Wednesday. The good news is that rates of severe […]

How Will The Poor Countries Of The World Get The Coronavirus Vaccine? The Short Answer Is, They Won’t

NEW YORK — If the United Nations was created from the ashes of World War II, what will be born from the global crisis of COVID-19? Many world leaders at this week’s virtual U.N. summit hope it will be a vaccine made available and affordable to all countries, rich and poor. But with the U.S., […]

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 there is good news as well as the countries reported no new deaths Sunday. The Dominican Republic continues to show increases in confirmed cases daily and remains the epicenter of […]

The Last Places On Earth Without The Coronavirus

DUSHANBE — Despite infecting more than three million people around the world, there are still 33 countries and territories that have yet to report a single case of the novel coronavirus. These include Comoros, Lesotho, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and tiny far-flung island nations in the Pacific such as Nauru, Kiribati and the Solomon Islands. (Open tmsnrt.rs/3cUYM31 in an […]

Caribbean And Latin America Records 500,000th COVID-19 Case This Weekend

BUENOS AIRES — Latin America and the Caribbean has now recorded more than half a million coronavirus infections, according to an Agence France-Press tally based on official reports.  Almost half have been recorded in Brazil – the country worst-hit by the pandemic in the region – which also has more than 15,000 deaths.  The tallies, using data […]

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. The Dominican Republic reached 8,235 cases yesterday as its death toll climbed by another 13 to 346. According to the local representative of the Pan American Health Organization, Alma Morales, […]

Caribbean Nations See A Silver Lining In The Coronavirus Fight

SANTO DOMINGO — Several Caribbean nations are showing positive signs that they are flattening the curve of the dreaded new coronavirus, a silver lining for a region that has seen its tourism dependent economy crushed by the pandemic. The number of new coronavirus cases has now been zero in over 20 islands for several days […]