Latin America and the Caribbean crossed the threshold of 15,000 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, with Brazil being the most affected country with nearly 8,000 deaths, according to a count based on official data. This region of the world where the pandemic should be at its highest in the coming days recorded more than 282,000 cases of Covid-19 at 2:30 am Wednesday. After Brazil (7,921 deaths and 114,715 infected), the most affected countries are Mexico (2,271 and 24,905) then Ecuador (1,569 and 31,881).
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Several countries such as Ecuador, Colombia and the Dominican Republic have therefore decided to extend containment measures to prevent the spread of the pandemic. The Pan American Health Organization called on governments to be "cautious" in relaxing these measures and warned that transmission was "still very high" in Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Mexico.
Half of mankind cloistered
Brazil was the first Latin American country to confirm a coronavirus infection on February 26: a 61-year-old man who had traveled to Lombardy, one of the regions most affected by the pandemic in Italy, a few days before.
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The Covid-19 epidemic has already killed 256,000 people since its appearance in December in China and has kept more than half of humanity at home, plunging the economy into unprecedented sleep.