{"id":32053,"date":"2021-09-28T11:07:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T16:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=32053"},"modified":"2021-09-28T11:07:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T16:07:06","slug":"panama-plans-vaccinate-tourists-nears-herd-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/panama-plans-vaccinate-tourists-nears-herd-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama Plans to Vaccinate Tourists as It Nears Herd Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Panama will offer vaccines to foreign visitors in the near future now that most of its own citizens are fully inoculated, the nation\u2019s trade and industry minister said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext month we\u2019re going to have more than 70% of our population with two vaccines and that\u2019s been one of the keys of our economic plan for recovery,\u201d Trade and Industry Minister\u00a0Ramon Martinez<\/a>\u00a0told Bloomberg Television\u2019s Shery Ahn in an interview in New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to open for tourists to visit Panama and get vaccinated, and allow them to see the other wonders that Panama has.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Laurentino Cortizo said during his address to the UN General Assembly on Thursday the nation is weeks away from achieving herd immunity and called for an international effort \u201cto provide countries with enough vaccines to save lives, preserve health and put us on a path to a global economic recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Latin America has been among the regions worst-hit by the pandemic, both in terms of deaths and in economic damage. Panama initially lagged peers in its vaccination drive, but is now among the regional leaders with 56% of its population fully vaccinated, according to Bloomberg\u2019s Vaccine Tracker. That\u2019s a higher proportion than the U.S. and Japan, and far higher than most Latin American nations.<\/p>\n