BRASILIA (Reuters) – New infections of COVID-19 are dropping in the United States, Canada and Mexico, but in Latin America vaccinations have hardly begun, raising the risk of dangerous new variants emerging, the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday.
“As long as COVID-19 endures in one part of the world, the rest of the world can never be safe,” PAHO director Carissa Etienne said in a briefing on the pandemic in the Americas.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
