Covid-19 deaths in Latin America, Caribbean pass 80,000 mark

The number of cases reported in both regions now stands at 1,681,378. FMTNews

A patient with Covid-19 symptoms arrives in an ambulance at San Juan de Dios Hospital in Guatemala City on Friday.

Since the disease first spread in Latin America in March, a total of 80,505 deaths have been recorded, 43,959 of them in Brazil which has the world’s second-highest number of fatalities after the US.In Brazil, a country of 212 million, 888,271 people have been infected – more than in all of Asia.

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