Chart: COVID-19 Testing, Recovery, and Mortality Rates in Latin America
Chart: COVID-19 Testing, Recovery, and Mortality Rates in Latin America
Each country is fighting the same virus, but the battles waged are playing out differently across the board.
By mid-June, many countries in Latin America began dipping their toes into the waters of reopening after, in some cases, close to three months of nationwide lockdowns. That doesn’t mean the virus’ spread has necessarily slowed in these countries—quite the contrary.
Different countries’ public health policy responses to the virus vary widely, as do their methodologies for tabulating and reporting testing, mortality, and recovery rates. Some countries have made attempts to record and report as much data as possible (Chile, Peru), while in Brazil, the Supreme Court had to step in on June 8 to order the federal government to restore nationwide data that it took offline two days prior.
Here is a snapshot of where coronavirus testing, recovery, and mortality rates in countries across the region stood as of June 15, with comparisons to a month prior.
Luisa Horwitz and Paola Nagovitch contributed research for these charts. This article was originally published May 20 and has been since updated.