Latin America & The Caribbean Weekly Situation Update (10-16 May 2021), as of 17 May 2021
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125.7M COVID-19 VACCINE DOSES ADMINISTERED IN LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
HONDURAS
Mayors from seven Honduran municipalities requested aid from El Salvador in providing 121,800 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an amount that would cover about 70 per cent of the 97,485 people that live in these municipalities. Honduras has received only 246,800 doses so far, most through the COVAX Facility, and remains at .58 doses per every 100 people, the lowest per capita rate in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The shipment comes as Honduras experienced the deadliest week of their COVID-19 pandemic during the first week of May, with the week’s 331 deaths and daily average of 47 deaths well above any week in July 2020, the first peak of the pandemic. The rising trend in deaths indicates that May will likely be the deadliest month of the pandemic for Honduras, with medical experts anticipating more than
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – When Rosa Dos Anjos was admitted to a COVID-19 intensive care unit in the Amazonian capital of Manaus for 15 days in January, she thought her fortunes could not possibly get any worse.
The 50 year old had already lost her father to the virus during a deadly first wave of the pandemic last year – and Dos Anjos was fighting for her life as oxygen supplies ran out and the healthcare system collapsed all around her.
While she narrowly survived, her family’s struggle is far from over, as her 41-year-old brother also contracted the disease and saw his oxygen saturation levels plunge to 80 percent in April, the deadliest month in Brazil since the pandemic began.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil Religious presence in the Amazon region in the past year has been a challenge. But between distributing food and lending a friendly ear to those afflicted by unemployment, hunger and despair, the religious women working in Brazil s Amazonas state have been a driving force, helping the population cope with the dramatic situation of COVID-19 in the region. They have also, however, faced their own anguishes because of social distancing. I believe our greatest struggle is to know that these people, who live far from cities and [are] isolated, are in desperate need, and we are not being able to help them personally, said Sr. Roselei Bertoldo, missionary of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, who lives in the capital city of Manaus in the middle of the Amazon jungle.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - One month after the catastrophic oxygen shortage in hospitals in Manaus and the interior of Amazonas on January 14th, the state has registered almost 4,000 covid-19 deaths.
In this month and a half of 2021, the number of lives lost is close to double the figure recorded throughout the whole of 2020, according to data from the Amazonas Health Surveillance Foundation (FVS-AM), totaling 10,100 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Although the race for oxygen has slowed down, the situation is still unstable, with hospitals crowded and the daily consumption of . . .
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