Death Toll Exceeds a Million in Chinese Vaccine-Reliant Latin America

People wait in line to receive a dose of the Sinovac's CoronaVac vaccine during a vaccination day for 65-year-old and older citizens in Duque de Caxias near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 29, 2021. Ricardo Moraes/Reuters

The death toll from the CCP virus in Latin America and the Caribbean has now exceeded 1 million.

In a statement, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said that as of May 21, nearly 89 percent of deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean occurred in the countries of Brazil (44.3 percent), Mexico (22.1 percent), Colombia (8.3 percent), Argentina (7.3 percent) and Peru (6.7 percent). Three percent of the deaths were concentrated in Central America and 1 percent in the Caribbean.