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The number of patients is soaring, the health system is stressed and the government is facing criticism over its response. So far 150,000 Peruvians have caught the virus this year and 248 have died.

"Glaring gaps" in access to COVID-19 vaccines are partially to blame for increasing infection rates in Peru, Argentina, Brazil and many other Latin American and Caribbean countries .

Due to limited resources, delayed startups, chronic shortages — and official scandals — only a fraction of Latin America and the Caribbean has been inoculated.

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