'Want the COVID-19 vaccine? Have a U.S. visa?' Latinos travel north for the shot


  • World
  • Wednesday, 12 May 2021

A healthcare worker holds syringes with the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a vaccination centre, in El Paso, Texas, U.S May 6, 2021. Picture taken May 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

MEXICO CITY/LIMA (Reuters) - "Want the COVID-19 vaccine? Have a U.S. visa? Contact us," reads a travel agency advertisement, offering deals to Mexicans to fly to the United States to get inoculated.

From Mexico to far-flung Argentina, thousands of Latin Americans are booking flights to the United States to take advantage of one of the world's most successful vaccination campaigns, as rollouts in their own countries sputter.

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