Latin America has 40% of new Covid-19 cases globally every day
The nightmare scenario some feared would come to pass in Syria or India appears to be unfolding in Brazil, which is becoming the new epicentre
28 May 2020 - 18:03
São Paulo — In March, when Covid-19 was stamping out lives across the world, Latin America looked like it might escape relatively unharmed. Its governments chose vastly different approaches to confronting the pandemic, from severe lockdown in El Salvador and Peru to relative laxness in Brazil and Mexico.
But as May heads into June, the news could hardly be more dire for the highly urbanised region of 600-million inhabitants — it is, without question, the new epicentre of the new coronavirus, representing about 40% of daily deaths globally...
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