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Venezuelan Migrants to Get Regional Vaccination Cards Under 10-nation Pact

Reuters

   BOGOTA - Venezuelan migrants will be provided with a regional
   vaccination card beginning in October, health officials from 10
   countries agreed on Monday, in an effort to ensure they receive needed
   vaccines and are not given double doses.

   More than 4 million Venezuelans have fled an economic and political
   crisis in their home country that has caused widespread shortages of
   food and medicine.

   Health officials from the United States, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama,
   Canada, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Peru and Paraguay
   unanimously approved the measure in a meeting in the Colombian border
   city of Cucuta.

   The vaccination card will "accompany migrants from the middle of
   October and have the support of international agencies for its
   printing, distribution and training for its use," Colombian Health
   Minister Juan Pablo Uribe told journalists.

   "The unified card shows that our countries can work together," Uribe
   added.

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