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The Dominican Republic may not be very wealthy, but they're not exactly impoverished either, especially not by Haitian standards. Their GDP per capita PPP was m
by yorwba 4y ago
The Dominican Republic may not be very wealthy, but they're not exactly impoverished either, especially not by Haitian standards. Their GDP per capita PPP was more than six times as high in 2021. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KD?locations=DO-HT https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KD?locat... The 2,364 deaths are probably still an undercount, but less so than in Haiti.
- AlbertoGP 4y agoYes, the Dominican Republic has much better medical infrastructure. As of 2021-06-24 (translated from Spanish): > According to official data, the country has applied 7.402.235 doses and already 2.655.737 people are fully vaccinated https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2021/06/24/republica-dominicana-ofrecera-tercera-vacuna-contra-el-covid-19-orix/ https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2021/06/24/republica-dominicana-o... The first rounds of vaccination were AstraZeneca, and as noted in that link at that point in time: > In total, the caribbean country has bought around 31 million dosis of covid-19 vaccine. Of those, 10,768,000 are Sinovac, 9,999,990 Pfizer, and another 10 million are AstraZeneca. Meanwhile, as per the article which is dated 2021-05-14: > When COVAX, a program run by the World Health Organization, offered Haiti AstraZeneca vaccines, the government declined the offer.