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April 8, 2021
TrueNewsReport
TRUENEWSBLOG – The Haitian government has declined to receive the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to EFE, a Dominican news outlet.
About 756,000 vaccine doses were scheduled to arrive in Haiti in May, free of charge to the government, according to The Guardian.
Haïti has asked for vaccines from other drugmakers, an unnamed government source told EFE. However, the country’s lack of deep refrigeration infrastructure can only accommodate the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, which don’t require the deeply cold temperatures environments for handling and safekeeping. The Haitian government is concerned about the AstraZeneca vaccine after several European countries suspended the vaccine last month for fear that certain people were getting sick after taking the vaccine. Source
