PAHO: Coronavirus Cases in The Americas Decreased Last Week

The Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday that the number of cases and deaths of Covid-19 in the United States decreased 30% in the past week and is declining in most South American countries, but the effect of vaccines will take months.

WHO director Carissa Etienne urged governments and manufacturers to accelerate the delivery of vaccines to the region, where the number of people infected with the virus during the past seven days has reached one million, along with 34,000 deaths.

She added that the number of people vaccinated with the Coronavirus vaccine in the Americas has reached 78 million as of this week and that the vast majority of them are in North America. She indicated that only 13 million got vaccinated in Latin America and the Caribbean.

“This is not enough and it is not acceptable,” she said during an online briefing from Washington.