Coronavirus cases on rise in Latin America

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Brazil, with a population of 210 million, has the most cases in Latin America - 38,654 infections and 2,462 deaths so far - although experts believe the number of infections to be far greater, given relatively little testing. | Above: Health workers help a patient suffering COVID-19 inside the field municipal Hospital Gilberto Novaes, in Manaus, Brazil. Image Credit: AP

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Emma Salvador, 84, supplements her oxygen as her son Jose Gonzalez watches over her in a makeshift tent set up at the 2 de Mayo Hospital to treat people who are infected with the new coronavirus, in Lima, Peru. Peru has reported 15,628 COVID-19 infections and 400 deaths so far. Image Credit: AP

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Workers prepare to disinfect at a bus station, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Santiago, Chile. Chile has reported 10,088 COVID-19 infections and 133 deaths so far. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Relatives of a person who died from the new coronavirus -some in protective suits- carry the wrapped coffin inside a cemetery in the north of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Ecuador has reported 9,468 COVID-19 infections and 474 deaths so far. Image Credit: AFP

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A man enters to a private clinic to take a coronavirus test in Mexico City. Mexico has reported 8,261 COVID-19 infections and 686 deaths so far. Image Credit: AFP

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Beds for low-risk patients are seen inside a pavilion at the Corferias Convention Center, where a temporary hospital is being built, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Bogota, Colombia. Colombia has reported 3,792 COVID-19 infections and 179 deaths so far. Image Credit: REUTERS

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A doctor enters a mobile hospital outside the Hospital Aeronautico Central in the Pompeya neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentina has reported 2,839 COVID-19 infections and 132 deaths so far. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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Cemetery workers dig graves at the San Vicente cemetery in Cordoba, Argentina. Image Credit: AFP

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Funeral workers wait with a coffin in the back of a pick-up truck outside Los Ceibos hospital as health and funeral services have been overwhelmed amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Image Credit: REUTERS

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A paramedic, wearing protective suit and mask, transports a man suspected of being infected with the coronavirus, in Mexico City, Mexico. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Gravediggers open new graves at the San Vicente cemetery, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread, in Cordoba, Argentina. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Funeral workers in protective gear prepare the grave of a woman who is suspected to have died of COVID-19 disease, at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil. Image Credit: AP

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Cots, to be used by people infected with the new coronavirus, fill an industrial warehouse once used to store car parts, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Image Credit: AP

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Medical workers respond to an emergency scene in the Paraisópolis favela of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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A worker disinfects a bus stop during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, in Curitiba, Brazil. Image Credit: REUTERS

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A mobile medical team, wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), perform a Covid-19 rapid test on a patient in San Juan de Lurigancho neighbourhood of Lima, Peru. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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A patient using an oxygen mask rests inside the intensive care unit for people infected with the new coronavirus, at the 2 de Mayo Hospital, in Lima, Peru. Image Credit: AP

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Municipal workers conduct a census at Egipto (Egypt) neighbourhood in Bogota during the new coronavirus pandemic. Image Credit: AFP

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Health Ministry personnel test a woman for COVID-19 in the Samanes 7 residential complex in northern Guayaquil, Ecuador. Guayaquil has recorded roughly 70 percent of the country's more than 8,200 coronavirus cases. Image Credit: AFP

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A person wearing a protective mask pushes a grocery cart through a decontamination chamber at the La Vega Central fruit and vegetable market in Santiago, Chile. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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Health workers wearing protective suits pose at a hospital set up for people infected with COVID-19 during its presentation to the press in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico. Image Credit: AFP

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