Barbados has already vaccinated Phone Number List more than 20% of its inhabitants and it is intended to reach the beginning of May with the entire population vaccinated. Right now the possibility of offering vaccines to tourists is being considered. Many Caribbean states have long taken advantage of the competition between Taiwan and China. Five Phone Number List of the only 15 countries in the world that recognize Taiwan as a state and maintain diplomatic relations with it are from the Caribbean. These are Belize, Haiti, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. In return, they can count on loans and WLAN Phone Number List expansion, public works, and study programs in Taiwan.
With the beginning of the Phone Number List covid-19 crisis, this was joined by masks, rapid tests and respirators with adhesive labels that read “Taiwan helps”. However, Taiwan itself relies on imports to make vaccines. In order to make up for this shortcoming, generous programs for post-pandemic economic revival are already being promised. Since 2016, Panama, When it comes to vaccine deliveries, China plays hard: The Phone Number List Dominican Republic severed ties with Taiwan three years ago. Now, a Chinese plane has landed in Santo Domingo with a million doses of vaccines on board. The staging at the airport had a similar grandeur: photos with Chinese flags unloading cargo and speeches that speak of friendship and solidarity. Or the case of Guyana, which Phone Number List had recently allowed Taiwan to open a commercial office.
Beijing did not hide its anger Phone Number List And after having "corrected" this mistake a few weeks ago, the president of Guyana, Ali, received from Xi Jinping, by phone, the promise of 20,000 doses of the vaccine. Almost simultaneously with the Chinese delivery of millions of doses to the Dominican Republic, the first supply of the COVAX Phone Number List multilateral initiative, in which the European Union has a substantial participation, also arrived in the Caribbean: 14,000 doses of vaccines delivered to Jamaica on March 15. While COVAX may have a significant Phone Number List impact over time, at the moment its deliveries are late and meager. The United States also joined the COVAX initiative under