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CURRENTLY @ LATINNO Since the second wave of Covid-19 infections arrived in the region, several Latin American countries have been facing once again the difficult decision to impose lockdown measures. While vaccination continues to advance rather slowly in most countries, governments and civil society debate over how to balance the measures to contain the pandemic, on the one side, and measures to reduce the pervasive inequality in access to public services that has only worsened ...
Read moreCURRENTLY @ LATINNO As the pandemic continues to impact lives and livelihoods around the world, the effects of COVID-19 triggered an unprecedented crisis in Latin America. Brazil, for example, surpassed 300,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, becoming the second country in the world to do so. And while many sectors of the population have been severely impacted by the situation, women in the region have been disproportionately affected. According to a report released by ECLAC, 56.9% of ...
Read moreCurrently @ LATINNO Vaccination campaigns against Covid-19 have launched in several Latin American countries. However, the uneven allocation of vaccines threatens to prolong the pandemic in the region. Efforts to guarantee equal access to vaccines are challenged both by the difficulties that regional governments are facing to secure enough doses and by corruption scandals. This month, irregularities and nepotism became evident in Peru, Argentina and Chile, where the early vaccination of several high-ranked public officials -skipping ...
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