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| Apr 4, 2021

COVAX making several Caribbean, Latin America trips this week

Gavin Riley

Gavin Riley / Our Today

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The COVAX Facility, completing its first delivery of vaccines to Trinidad and Tobago on March 30, continues its shipment of AstraZeneca shots this week. (Photo: PAHO.org)

The World Health Organization (WHO)-backed COVAX Facility continues to ramp up deliveries of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines to multiple countries within the Caribbean and Latin America this week.

Starting with Uruguay on Sunday (April 4), COVAX, shipping doses of the AstraZeneca booster, will then make its last stop in Antigua and Barbuda on Thursday.

The Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO), which represents the WHO in the Americas, has updated COVAX’s shipment itinerary since successfully delivering 33,600 doses to Belize on March 31.

See table on delivery dates and shipment sizes under the COVAX Facility:

Country Vaccine type (and quantity)Date scheduled for arrival
UruguayAstraZeneca (48,000 doses)April 4
BarbadosAstraZeneca (33,600)April 6
Dominican RepublicAstraZeneca (91,200)April 6
DominicaAstraZeneca (28,800)April 6
BermudaAstraZeneca (9,600)April 6
St Vincent and the GrenadinesAstraZeneca (24,000)April 6
St Kitts and NevisAstraZeneca (21,600)April 6
Costa RicaAstraZeneca (43,200)April 7
St LuciaAstraZeneca (24,000)April 7
GrenadaAstraZeneca (24,000)April 7
Antigua and BarbudaAstraZeneca (24,000)April 8
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AstraZeneca Vaccine Caribbean Coronavirus Pandemic COVAX Facility COVID-19 disease Latin America Pan American Health Organization vaccine distribution World Health Organization

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