“Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to have more than 438,000 covid-19 deaths” in the next three months, Etienne said.
By: AFP
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Latin America and the Caribbean will register more than 400,000 deaths from covid-19 by October 1 “if current conditions persist,” the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa Etienne, warned this Tuesday, June 30.
“Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to have more than 438,000 covid-19 deaths” in the next three months, he said.
“It is important to emphasize that these projections will be met only if current conditions persist. This means that countries can change these predictions if they make the right decisions and implement strict proven public health measures, “added the official.
Etienne assured that the battle against the coronavirus pandemic in America is tough, but “it is far from being lost.”
The region, the new epicenter of the epidemic, accumulates more than 5.2 million cases and 248,000 deaths related to the virus, just over half of the infections and deaths registered worldwide.
Etienne assured that, in the absence of a vaccine or effective treatments for covid-19, the tools that the region has at its disposal to fight the virus “are limited”.
