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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) Ever since the pandemic began, Haiti had perplexed experts with seemingly low infection and death rates from COVID-19 despite its rickety public health system, a total lack of vaccines and a widespread disdain for safety measures like masks and distancing.
Haiti fights large COVID-19 spike as it awaits vaccines
EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO, Associated Press
June 9, 2021
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1of6A hospital emplyee wearing protective gear as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, transports oxygen tanks, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, June 5, 2021. Haiti defied predictions and perplexed health officials by avoiding a COVID-19 crisis for more than a year, but the country of more than 11 million people that has not received a single vaccine is now battling a spike in cases and deaths.Joseph Odelyn/APShow MoreShow Less
2of6Customers wearing protective face masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, talk with a vendor in a street market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, June 5, 2021. Haiti defied predictions and perplexed health officials by avoiding a COVID-19 crisis for more than a year, but the country of more than 11 million people that has not received a single vaccine i
Share In this file photo a nurse assists a Covid-19 patient at the Doctors Without Borders Drouillard Hospital in Cite Soleil, Haiti, on June 3, 2020. (Pierre Michel Jean / AFP)
As countries move into post pandemic, Haiti is now only grappling with its first serious outbreak.
It is one of the few countries that haven t administered a single shot of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Haiti has recorded 15 895 coronavirus cases and 333 deaths, but doctors say numbers could be much higher.
For more than a year, Haiti escaped the worst ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic, reporting few cases and fatalities - a rare break for the poorest country in the Americas, which has so often been beset by misfortune.