Latin America's COVID-19 victims, and the spaces they leave behind

Coronavirus has claimed nearly one million lives, about a third of those in Latin America

Published: September 25, 2020 16:52 AFP and Compiled by Christian Borbon, Senior Web Editor

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A chair, plant, paintings and a Catrina figure, all which belonged to Hebert Axel Gonzalez, a theatre director who died of COVID-19 in April, now decorate the entrance of his partner Carlos Corro's house in Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico. Image Credit: AFP

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Posters of five members of the Diaz family who died from COVID-19 are seen pasted on a wall of the living room of their home in Chorrillos, south of Lima, Peru. Image Credit: AFP

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A view of Regina Eleonora's house, mother of late nurse Alan Patrick who died in April 22 victim of COVID-19, in Rio de Janeiro. Image Credit: AFP

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The room of the late Paulo Roberto -a COVID-19 victim- where he watched films, documentaries and slept every day, in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Image Credit: AFP

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A pair of sandals under a hammock, which belonged to Joaquin Barrera, a victim of COVID-19, at his home in Santiago Nonualco, El Salvador. Image Credit: AFP

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Aa photo and jewellery which belonged to Honduran journalist David Romero, head of Globo radio and TV station, who died of complications from the novel coronavirus COVID-19 on July 18, taken at his house in Tegucigalpa. Image Credit: AFP

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The bed where Venezuelan Wilmer Arcadio Hernandez, 63, died from COVID-19 in his home in Villa Maria del Triunfo, south of Lima, Peru. Image Credit: AFP

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A guitar belonging to the late Paulo Roberto -a COVID-19 victim- at his house in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Image Credit: AFP

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An altar in homage to Wilfredo Davila Minano -a victim of COVID-19- is seen at the ceviche restaurant he owned (currently closed) in Trujillo, Peru. Image Credit: AFP

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A picture of Hebert Axel Gonzalez, a theatre director who died of COVID-19 in April, is seen on a computer screen at his partner's house in Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico. Image Credit: AFP

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The bedroom of Mexican stretcher-bearer Hugo Lopez Camacho, who died following a COVID-19 infection, in Mexico City. Image Credit: AFP

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A chair belonging to Salvadoran photojournalist Franklin Rivera, 52, who died from COVID-19, at the yard of his home in Ciudad Delgado, El Salvador. Image Credit: AFP

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The couch where Oscar Farias, who died of COVID-19 on April 27, sat to watch TV at his son's house in Buenos Aires. Image Credit: AFP

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The bedroom of Mexican nurse Juana Silva Isidoro, who died of COVID-19, taken at her house in Xochimilco neighbourhood in Mexico City. Image Credit: AFP

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The bedroom of Hugo Dutra, 25, who died of COVID-19 at the Quilombo Sacopa in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Image Credit: AFP

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