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Jamaica is looking to Cuba, China and India in a bid to procure COVID-19 vaccines, after accusing rich nations of "hoarding" the inoculations, reported Bloomberg.
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Health minister Christopher Tufton said Jamaica might not get its first batch of vaccines under the WHO co-led COVAX facility until April, making it necessary to look beyond the program.
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Jamaica will enter bilateral talks with other states to try to speed up the inoculation of its people, Tufton added.
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Earlier this week, the Caricom bloc of Caribbean nations called for a global summit to discuss drug distribution and said it was concerned about "inequitable access to vaccines."
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Meanwhile, Venezuela recently said it would run trials of the Cuban vaccine known as Soberana 2.
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