Coronavirus in Latin America: the countries with the most deaths from covid-19

2021-02-01T10:43:40.109Z

Thus begins the week of February 1, 2021 in the ten Latin American countries with the highest number of deaths from COVID-19, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. | Latin America | CNN

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United States, first, Brazil, second, Mexico, third, India, fourth, followed by Italy, France, Russia, Spain, Iran and Germany.

Of the ten countries in the world with the most deaths from coronavirus, the first three are in the Americas.

Today the pandemic adds up to almost 103 million global cases and more than 2.2 million deaths.

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Thus begins the week of February 1, 2021 in the ten Latin American countries with the highest number of deaths from COVID-19, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.

Brazil

Covid-19 leaves a trail of death in the Amazon 4:15

Nine children between 1 and 5 years old who presented symptoms of coronavirus died in the Yanomami indigenous territory in Amazonas state, according to the Yanomami and Ye'kuana Indigenous Health District Council on Sunday.

Currently, the Brazilian Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, is being investigated for the Government's handling of the pandemic crisis in Amazonas.

224,504 deaths

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9,204,731 cases

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Mexico

Covid-19: they report a good evolution of López Obrador 2:10

The Ministry of Health of Mexico is investigating with Jalisco authorities if there could be a new strain of covid-19 in the country.

This was reported this Sunday by the director of the National Center for Preventive Programs and Disease Control (CENAPRECE), Ruy López Ridaura.

The announcement comes a day after the University of Guadalajara reported that on January 27 they detected four cases of a mutation to the virus that causes the disease, according to a statement from the institution.

On the other hand, the doctors of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported that the president has already passed the critical stage of the disease and his evolution is good, one week after contracting covid-19.

158,536 deaths

1,864,260 cases

Colombia

Holmes Trujillo, Colombian Defense Minister, dies 1:29

Colombia already has a date for vaccination against covid-19 in the country: it will begin on February 20, according to President Iván Duque.

Three days before the announcement, Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo died of coronavirus.

53,983 deaths

2,094,884 cases

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Argentina

Controversy over isolation centers in Formosa 2:58

47,974 deaths

1,927,239 cases

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Peru

Mandatory quarantine begins in 10 departments 3:54

41,026 deaths

1,138,239 cases

Chile

Chile prepares to begin mass vaccination 1:20

18,452 deaths

727,109 cases

Ecuador

Criticisms and complaints about the vaccination process in Ecuador 4:27

Last week, associations of doctors and nurses, assembly members, the Ombudsman's Office and other bodies called for the resignation of Ecuador's Minister of Health, Juan Carlos Zevallos.

They argue that priority is not being given in the application of the vaccine to front-line personnel in hospitals and care centers for the elderly, as the Government had announced.

14,859 deaths

250,828 cases

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Bolivia

Relatives of covid-19 patients wait to recharge oxygen tanks in El Alto, Bolivia.

(AIZAR RALDES / AFP via Getty Images)

10,379 deaths

216,835 cases

Guatemala

Doctors protest outside the Roosevelt hospital in Guatemala City to demand that the government of Alejandro Giammattei consider them as a priority group to receive the covid-19 vaccine.

(JOHAN ORDONEZ / AFP via Getty Images)

5,643 deaths

159,504 cases