Panama Plans to Vaccinate Tourists as It Nears Herd Immunity

Nation overtook regional peers in race to get vaccinated
Panama’s economy crashed 17.9% last year as construction froze

WATCH: Ramón Martínez de la Guardia, Panama’s minister of commerce, discusses the government’s vaccination program and its implications for the economy. (Source: Bloomberg)

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By Michael D McDonald

September 22, 2021 at 11:05 PM UTC

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September 23, 2021 at 5:48 PM UTC

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Panama will offer vaccines to foreign visitors in the near future now that most of its own citizens are fully inoculated, the nation’s trade and industry minister said.

“Next month we’re going to have more than 70% of our population with two vaccines and that’s been one of the keys of our economic plan for recovery,” Trade and Industry Minister Ramon Martinez told Bloomberg Television’s Shery Ahn in an interview in New York.