Latin America is looking forward to the new year of the coronavirus pandemic, which has 600,000 deaths in the region, while waiting for the vaccines of the COVAX mechanism, which is expected to be confirmed in more than 30 continental countries and could start this month.
“The entry of COVAX’s working vacancies is a hopeful step in combating this virus”, said Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan-American Organization of Health (OPS), confirming the notification to 36 countries and territories of America of the estimated number of AstraZeneca doses that may be received from the second half of February and the second quarter of this year by the middle of this mechanism.
COVAX is a platform coordinated by the World Health Organization (OMS / OPS) to provide access to vacancies against covid-19, to which 190 countries worldwide adhere to the end of ten guaranteed initial dose for cover at least 3% of the population in the first stages, finally reaching 20%, which is enough to protect the people in mayor.
Dosage of COVAX doses
The Alliance for the GAVI Vacancies confirmed last week that a 280 million dose of antiviral vacancies in Latin America has been received by the COVAX program.
Inside this mechanism, the region registers about 30 territories with capacity to buy vacancies and 10 eligible for receipts with donation: Bolivia, Dominica, El Salvador, Granada, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Santa Lucia and San Vicente and las Granadinas.
The OPS Rotary Fund has estimated in recent months that to evacuate up to 20% of the Latin American and Caribbean people need 273 million doses (with a scheme of applications of $ 10.55 each), which implies a projected cost of $ 2,714,200,000.
According to the announcement of the OPS, the vacancy that is initially initiated by the British AstraZeneca, that the OMS analysis is in order to receive the approval of emergency use, which can be obtained in the next days.
“In COVAX we now have a better idea of the times for the approval of the emergence of the main products that are in its portfolio, between which the main will be (the vacancy) of AstraZeneca, which we hope is available from February” , dijo hoy el asesor principal de la OMS, Bruce Aylward.
With this, it is estimated that in this first stage, there will be a total of 35.3 million doses in the United States.
The number of vacancies is informed directly to each nation and in the case of Nicaragua, eligible for receipts as a donation, the Government informs high that the OMS guarantees the entry of 504,000 doses in the short course.
The OPS requests that the countries and territories of the continent receive and notify COVAX evacuation notices from Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belice, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador and El Salvador.
Also located in San Cristóbal y Nieves, Granada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, British Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, San Vicente and Granadinas, Santa Lucia, Surinago , Uruguay and Venezuela.
Latin America: 19 million cases and 600,000 deaths
The desperate announcement has taken place in some Latin American countries, where direct agreements with manufacturing laboratories are being advanced, in a region that is among the most affected by the pandemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has notified this Monday that the total global caseload rising to 102.3 million and the death toll to 2.2 million.
America, with 45.6 million cases and one million deaths, and Europe, with 34.2 million and 743,000 deces, are the most affected regions of the world by coronavirus.
In fact, the cities with the mayor’s number of contagious signings are United States (26.2 million), India (10.7 million), Brazil (9.2 million), United Kingdom (3.84 million) and Russia ( 3.82 million), according to Johns Hopkins University data.
In Latin America, after Brazil, the nations with the most contacts are Colombia (2 million), Argentina (1.9 million) and Mexico (1.8 million).
With that, the continent totals 45.6 million cases and one million deaths. And from this figure, Latin America reports 19 million contagios and cases 600,000 decades.
January, my fake records
In the wake of the vacancies, the pandemic is looming on the continent and the countries are planning to use it in this second month of 2021 indexes of extreme failures and failures.
In the United States, which has accumulated more than 442,000 deces by covid-19, the death toll exceeds a record 90,000 deaths in a year, although the number of cases has been reduced to some extent.
January also saw the death of Mayor Coronavirus in Mexico, with at least 32,729 deaths due to covid-19, due to the insistence of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that the pandemic institute “domada”.
With a premise of 1,056 deaths a day, another year of 19,867 December, 18,919 July and 17,839 of June, which are considered the worst months of the pandemic in Mexico, which is now the third country with more time of bankruptcies worldwide (more than 158,000), after United States (442,000) and Brazil (more than 224,500).
Cuba also reported this month 906 new positive covid-19 diagnostic tools in the midst of coronavirus peers in the last ten months, while sanitary authorities prevent the curvature of contagios from rising in February.