While the world is on omicron alert, so are vaccination rates in Latin America

Ómicron: first measurements by the new variant of covid-19 3:14

(CNN Spanish) - 

The new variant of the omicron coronavirus has put the world on alert again.

As multiple countries detect cases of the variant and impose new restrictions, in Latin America some countries are still struggling to increase their vaccination rate against covid-19.

These are the vaccination rates with at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine per country in Latin America, according to Our World In Data.

We present the figures from Our World In Data with a cut-off date of November 28 (some countries, such as Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Honduras, among others, have figures from previous cut-off dates, according to the data available for the early hours of Monday November 29th):

• Cuba 89.79%

• Chile 87.69%

• Argentina 80.09%

• Uruguay 78.88%

• Brazil 75.91%

• Costa Rica 75.12%

• Ecuador 74.80%

• Colombia 71.50%

• Panama 68.61%

• El Salvador 67.81%

• Peru 66.76%

• Dominican Republic 62.68%

• Mexico 58.81%

• Nicaragua 57.33%

• Belize 56.12%

• World average 54.18%

• Guyana 50.48%

• Venezuela 48.28%

• Paraguay 45.42%

• Suriname 43.45%

• Honduras 39.63%

• Bolivia 39.62%

• Guatemala 32.40%

• Haiti 1.02%

Comparison of vaccination rates

At the regional level, South America has an average partial vaccination rate of 72.16% and North America 64.20%.

By way of comparison with the vaccination rates in Latin American countries, Spain has a rate of 81.91%, the United States of 68.79% and Kenya of 8.21%.

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Editor's Note:

Our World In Data specifies that its "vaccination dataset uses the most recent official figures from governments and Ministries of Health around the world. Population estimates for per capita metrics are based on Population Outlook United Nations World Cup ".

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