FILE PHOTO: Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido (C) walks with healthcare workers and fellow opposition politicians during a protest to demand that all people get vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Caracas, Venezuela April 17, 2021. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/File Photo
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday the government has made a second payment to the World Health Organization's (WHO) COVAX initiative to access around 11 million COVID-19 vaccines.
Venezuela is in the grip of a second wave of the pandemic, which has strained its already underfunded health system. The country's economic collapse has led to rising food insecurity https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/venezuela-malnutrition, and Maduro added the U.N. World Food Programme's (WFP) director, David Beasley, had arrived for meetings with officials.
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