But while Argentina exceeded one million cases of virus on Monday, smaller cities like Ushuaia are now experiencing some of the most notable increases: doctors have had to quadruple the number of beds for COVID-19 patients in the following month, at least 60%. recently tested tested tested positive for the virus.
“We were the example of the country,” said Dr. Carlos Guglielmi, director of the Ushuaia Regional Hospital. “Obviously, I came up here with the coronavirus. “
In Latin America, 3 other countries are expected to succeed in one million cases in the coming weeks: Colombia, Mexico and Peru. The grim mark occurs when Latin America continues to record one of the largest number of cases in the world. Countries have experienced significant declines, overall there has been little relief, with cases falling in one municipality and worsening in another.
The trajectory shows that the pandemic will leave any corner of Latin America unhinged.
“The moment the wave arrives having finished the first wave,” said Dr. Luis Jorge Hernández, professor of public fitness at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.
Argentina has experienced a spiral of instances despite the advent of one of the world’s longest closures; major Colombian cities have declined, but smaller spaces such as the Caldas branch in the coffee region are just now peaking. Overall numbers have fallen, however, officials recently reported that 12 regions are soaring. Mexico has also noticed an increase in a quarter of all states over the following week.
The result is that from a momentary wave of viruses like that observed in Europe, epidemiologists anticipate a more sustained trend, similar to a plateau.
“Our countries are still coming out of the first wave,” said Dr. Marcos Espinal, Director of Communicable Diseases Department at the Pan American Health Organization. “A giant of the population remains exposed and network transmission continues. “
The ruthless trace of the virus in Latin America is the result of weak public fitness systems, social points such as poverty, and poor government decisions at first, resulting in limited testing and little tactile research. of the 10 countries with the highest number of instances in the world.
Argentina first recorded a small number of cases of the virus, but now has one of the highest rates of new daily infections in line with the capita, according to Our World in Data, a non-profit online clinical publication founded at the University of Oxford. is on par with several European countries that are experiencing a resurgence of the virus.
Dr. Adolfo Rubinstein, argentina’s former fitness minister, said the country relies too heavily on blockades as the main means of controlling the virus, as it has not purchased enough evidence in the early months of the pandemic.
Where the virus seems to also change. Initially, up to 90% of the instances shown were in the city of Buenos Aires, today 65% of the instances in Argentina are in their provinces and even in faraway places like Ushuaia, the government said.
“It’s all over the country now,” Rubinstein said.
Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, director of the Americas branch of the World Health Organization, recently warned that coronavirus appears to be in a situation that has not been affected in the past, with the highest numbers in spaces such as the English-speaking Caribbean.
“In many countries, the pandemic has moved to less populated areas,” he said.
This can be noticed only in Argentina, but also in Colombia. The city of Manizales, in a domain known for its coffee trees, now has 440,98 instances consisting of 100,000 inhabitants, well above the national average of 284,09 consisting of 100,000 inhabitants, according to The Ministry of Health. Officials say slower accumulation in cases has allowed them to expand their extensive attention span.
“We’ve had a peak here like in Europe,” Hernandez said. “We had a tray. “
Across the region, testing remains an obstacle. In Peru, the government has largely based on antibody testing to identify cases; Tests aren’t designed to make a diagnosis because they can only find proteins that expand a week or more after infection. are still much lower than those of neighbouring countries; On Sunday, only 13,890 were tested, compared to 31,988 on the same day in Colombia.
The higher percentage of positive setbacks in Argentina suggests that the country still lacks a large number of infections.
Brazil reached 1 million in June and is now at 5. 2 million for the pandemic.
“These are massive understatements of what’s really happening in terms of numbers,” said Felicia Knaul, director of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Americas at the University of Miami. “We want more consistent use of the mask, but we want to mix this with testing and tracking; in a different way, the numbers will increase considerably. “
In Ushuaia, officials noted that truckers with buenos Aires-domain products may be guilty of construction in instances since mid-September. The prominent city as a starting point for cruise ships to Antarctica had been a style for the nation. air travel and the cessation of tourism have left him virus-free for months.
But this false sense of convenience would possibly have led others to fundamental norms for a pandemic such as hand washing and social estating. Tierra del Fuego province, which has a population of about 150,000, now has more than 8,000 cases shown.
In Ushuaia, concerned locals line up in their cars for driving tests. A sports center that is empty is now enabled to care for patients. A month ago, the regional hospital treated only seven patients with COVID-19; he is now 28 years old and occupies his entire bed reserved for adults in poor health.
“Failure in Argentina the small number of tests,” Guglielmi said.
José Bongiovanni, Ushuaia’s lawyer, said such a remote fear now feels close.
“Living at the end of the global has never been easy,” he said. “It’s a lot less simple at a time like this. “
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Associated Press reporter Nicolás Deluca reported on this story in Ushuaia, AP Almudena Calatrava reported from Buenos Aires and AP Christine Armario from Bogota, Colombia.
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