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The first detected case of COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by the recently discovered maximum coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), in Latin America and the Caribbean, was announced on February 26 in Brazil. Since then, several regional and foreign organizations have developed express resources and repositories for Latin America and the Caribbean that can help researchers, public fitness professionals, and local governments track this outbreak and combat the spread of the disease.
LAC-Urban Health has compiled resources and repositories on COVID-19 with regional relevance below. Follow the investigation of the pandemic through the members of LAC-Urban Health on SALURBlog.
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the regions of the world most affected by the pandemic. This article presents the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic using insights gathered through Urban Health in Latin America. America”) (SALURBAL). The note includes data on the number of reported cases, deaths, and vaccinations, as well as socioeconomic inequalities similar to outcomes in Latin American cities. Policy approaches and movements that some cities and countries have implemented improve the quality of knowledge and reduce inequalities.
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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) introduced a page offering its updated maximum data on the “COVID-19 Situation in the Region of the Americas. “
This page includes links to prestigious PAHO reports, links to all applicable World Health Organization websites, and an interactive map of cases in the Americas.
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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean has created the COVID-19 Observatory in Latin America and the Caribbean: Economic and Social Impact, which “monitors the public policies that the 33 countries of the Latin American and Caribbean region are implementing to restrict the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and offers analysis of the economic and social effects that those policies will have at the national and sectoral levels.
The observatory’s online page includes an interactive map showing the measures taken by the countries of the region in response to the pandemic.
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Latin America and the Caribbean and the COVID-19 pandemic
ECLAC also produced a special report describing the economic and social effects of the global pandemic in the region. Published on April 6, this report is the first in a series that will be produced as the pandemic evolves and more information becomes available.
Learn more and download the knowledge in the report.
Here you will locate his “Where is the coronavirus in Latin America?”The article is updated for both the next few days and the next two days with the most recent data on how the pandemic is affecting all Latin American countries, adding up the number shown. cases, the number of deaths, and timelines for each country, adding up the measures taken by both governments to combat the virus.
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The Health Equity Network of the Americas collects coronavirus resources submitted through network members and compiles them on its website. Resources are sent through network members on an ongoing basis and the page is updated weekly to load new links and posts that have been shared.
These resources include regional news and data, updates and resources from individual countries, research resources, and news and opinion pieces.
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The Cities for Global Health initiative is led through Metropolis and ALIAS (Euro-Latin American Alliance for Cooperation between Cities) and is implemented in collaboration with many partners, including MercoCities.
The current goal of this collaboration is to invite local and regional governments to share percentages of their reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. These communications describe projects taken through governments (such as plans, strategies, or policies) designed in particular in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. 19 pandemic.
This list of projects in development includes several recent presentations from several countries in the Latin American and Caribbean regions.
An organization of more than 50 scientists and public fitness and social professionals, many of them from Latin America, has created an online repository and visualization tool that compares countries’ policy responses in 4 categories: 1) efforts to decrease viral transmission, 2) efforts to build fitness formula capacity, 3) efforts to lessen the impact of the negative consequences of the pandemic and public fitness interventions, and 4) governance interventions. The purpose of this effort is to help policymakers and citizens understand global policy responses. to COVID-19. It includes knowledge from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, etc.
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In its efforts to collaborate with national and local authorities, UN-Habitat has developed this index, which presents a compilation of the latest knowledge on cities and allows users to compare knowledge of cities over time.
Some insights from the city include cases, lives lost, impact, and preparedness and responsiveness scores.
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SISCOVID’s task generated a tool with up-to-date data for decision-makers to assess COVID-19 mitigation and scenarios. As part of an initiative funded through Colombia’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, SALURBAL members participated at the Universidad del Andes.
The interactive panel presents knowledge from Barranquilla, Bogota, Cali, Cartagena and Medellin.
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Follow LAC-Urban Health members’ research on the pandemic and Latin American cities, nutrition, fitness equity, and more in our SALURBlog.
LAC-Urban Health is organized and coordinated through the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative. LAC-Urban Health is a partner network of the International Society for Urban Health.