Officially, the country has only 25 coronavirus cases. Hospitals and burials suggest otherwise.
“Of course there’s an undercount,” said Álvaro Ramírez, the epidemiologist who led Nicaragua’s response to theA Sandinista legislator, Carlos Emilio López, said in a video on May 6 that Nicaragua was prepared to confront covid-19. “It’s not true that in Nicaragua, the hospitals are collapsed, full, overwhelmed or saturated,” he said.
Outside hospitals, though, the reality is different: desperate families seeking information about their relatives, hearses driving away with bodies. Then there are the “express burials,” documented in cellphone videos shared on social media, and in local news reports.Late last month, a 57-year-old government worker was quietly interred in Managua, after dying of what was classified as cardiogenic shock, a heart problem.
The burial was so swift that “they put him in the coffin in his hospital gown,” said the man’s daughter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. “At 5 in the morning they buried him without his family present.”A group of 600 Nicaraguan doctors and other health professionals signed a letter late last month calling on the government to impose social distancing, suspend classes in schools and provide protective equipment for health personnel.
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