Mexico City: In this file photo taken on May 11, 2021 People wait after receiving doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at a vaccination center for people over 50 years old set up at the Vasconcelos Library, in Mexico City on May 11, 2021. The COVID-19 coronavirus has claimed more than one million lives in Latin America and the Caribbean, where vaccination is proceeding too slowly to halt the pandemic, unlike in places like the United States and Europe, which are already seeing a way out of the crisis. AFP FILE PHOTO
PORT AU PRINCE: Six presidents of Latin American and Caribbean countries called on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) on the international community for equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, asking those countries with the most doses to share them.
"We strongly appeal to countries, which have a surplus of doses or which have already vaccinated their populations at risk, to implement measures so that these surpluses are distributed equitably and immediately," said a joint statement issued by Costa Rica's President Carlos Alvarado.
