PARAMARIBO, Suriname – The Suriname government has relaxed a number of the measures put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

OTTAWA, Canada – Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced over US$170- million in additional funding to support COVID-19 vaccination needs in lower income countries, including the Caribbean. 

GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its first ever global guidelines to support women and newborns in the postnatal period, the first six weeks after birth.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Health authorities Wednesday warned Trinidad and Tobago against relaxing “very hard-won gains” in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, as the country prepares to observe the long Easter weekend.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa Etienne Wednesday warned that countries in the Americas, including the Caribbean, to remain vigilant and urgently close vaccination gaps as cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) surge in Europe and East Asia due to Omicron BA.2 variant.

UNITED NATIONS – Haiti is still to reach two percent of its population in the vaccinations drive against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said Monday in a new report that indicates only a tiny proportion of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in developing countries.

GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) says a single-dose Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine delivers solid protection against HPV, the virus that causes cervical cancer.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada – As Grenada prepares to remove COVID-19 restrictions next Monday, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Shawn Charles has warned citizens that they will be responsible for their own personal protection.

ROSEAU, Dominica – Dominica's government has announced a relaxation of some of the measures put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The Director of Israel’s National Burn Center at the Sheba Medical Centre, Professor Josef Haik, arrived in Haiti earlier this week to help patients who were badly injured when a fuel tanker crashed in the north of the county last December . 

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony Thursday said the government is considering the recommendation by the US-based Center of Disease Control (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to offer coronavirus booster doses to persons 12 years and older.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Health authorities say cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of death in Barbados and are expressing concern that while most of these events are occurring in persons over 65 years old, cases are also been reported in the younger population as well.