PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — Japan has raised its travel alert to level three for 18 more countries and has included Haiti among destinations to be avoided by its citizens, as a result of its increased cases of COVID-19.
Haiti records, on average, one new case of COVID-19 every seven minutes as the French-speaking Caribbean Community (Caricom) country recorded nearly 500 cases over the past 48 hours, health authorities here have said.
The ministry said that there were now 3,582 active cases and that the country is recording one confirmed case of the virus every seven minutes, particularly over the past two days.
The mission said that it has “not been informed that organisations or institutions, Dominican, Haitian, or foreign, have set up an emergency fund via a bank in the Dominican Republic for Haitian nationals living in the country”.
But it acknowledged that Haitians residing legally in the Dominican Republic may benefit from certain assistance programmes from the Government there, making reference to the Employee Solidarity Aid Fund intended to provide a monetary supplement to workers affected by the measures taken to prevent the spread of the virus in the country.
