More than 1 million folks have died from COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean because the pandemic worsens in the area, which now has the world’s highest per capita dying price.
Alongside with India, South America is the one space of the world the place new infections are very a lot on the rise, Reuters reported Saturday.
Throughout the the previous month, 31 p.c of the COVID-19 deaths in the world have been in Latin America and the Caribbean, which incorporates much less than 10 p.c of the world’s inhabitants.
Medical doctors and epidemiologists blamed in half authorities leaders who have been ill-prepared for the virus after which dealt with the disaster poorly, typically downplaying its seriousness, Reuters mentioned.
“As an alternative of making ready for the pandemic, we minimized the illness, saying the tropical warmth would deactivate the virus,” mentioned Dr. Francisco Moreno Sanchez, head of the COVID-19 program at one in every of Mexico’s most important hospitals and a critic of the federal government’s vaccination plan.
Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, a vaccine and lockdown skeptic, is below investigation by a parliamentary fee for his lax response to the pandemic. Bolsonaro didn’t purchase vaccines in time and failed to come back up with an efficient technique to battle the unfold of the illness, Reuters mentioned.
Brazil stays the third hardest-hit nation in the world in phrases of confirmed COVID-19 circumstances, behind solely India and america. It has the best dying toll in the area, adopted by Mexico and Colombia, which mixed characterize about 74 p.c of all of the deaths Latin America.
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