Tag: Latin America Covid-19
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In Latin America and the Caribbean, only one in 10 people has been vaccinated against Covid-19 even though cases continue to rise and the threat posed by new disease variants circulating in the region.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - May has been the most lethal month for Colombia due to the coronavirus pandemic with nearly 15,000 deaths and more than half a million infected, even though vaccination is progressing and approaching 10 million...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Latin America, the region most affected in the world by the pandemic, allocated in 2020 on average 4.6% of its gross domestic product (GDP) in social aid to combat the economic crisis caused by...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In the midst of the intense vaccination campaigns imposed by the different governments in the American countries, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Paraguay end this Friday a week with peaks and emergency measures to get...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Sandra Contreras, camped outside Lima’s Villa el Salvador hospital, is running out of funds to pay for her mother’s COVID-19 treatment, a sign of thin welfare systems around Latin America that are dragging many...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - According to an Airfinity study, the estimate is that Latin countries will reach herd immunity - that is, when the disease is contained because a large volume of people have already been immunized and...
