The IMF’s announcement of a huge anti-epidemic program comes as the death toll from coronavirus infection in Latin America-Caribbean surpassed 1 million on May 21. These regions need to be vaccinated quickly.
The G20 Global Health Crisis Conference, held May 21, mobilized the international community to fight the coronavirus pandemic, and the International Monetary Fund presented a massive $50 billion plan to end the pandemic, with three major laboratories pledging to deliver millions of vaccines to poor countries.
At this point in Latin America and the Caribbean, more than a million people have died from coronavirus (Covid-19) infections. Vaccination efforts there are moving too slowly to stop the spread of the epidemic, AFP said. While wealthy countries such as the United States and Europe have seen a third of their populations receive at least the first dose of the vaccine, seeing a way out of the epidemic crisis, the rate in poorer countries is only 0.3 percent.
As of 21:05 GMT on May 21, 1 million and 1,404 deaths had been recorded in Latin America since the first case of coronavirus infection in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Feb. 26, 2020, according to AFP statistics from Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. The number of confirmed cases stood at 31,586,075 as of Friday.
Ninety percent of the total number of deaths recorded above came from five countries: 446,309 in Brazil, 221,080 in Mexico, 83,233 in Colombia, 73,391 in Argentina and 67,253 in Peru. The combined population of these five countries represents 70% of the region.
After the United States, Brazil is the second most affected country in the world by the coronavirus pandemic. In the first half of April this year, Brazil had more than 3,000 deaths in a single day, the highest number the country has seen since the pandemic began. In the last six weeks, Brazil has reduced the number of single-day deaths by one-third.
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