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A health worker receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 at a drive-through vaccination in Bogotá, Colombia, on April 11, 2021. | AFP/DANIEL MUÑOZ
Covid-19 has caused the death of more than one million people in Latin America and the Caribbean where slow vaccine rollouts are preventing an exit from the pandemic crisis.
Since the coronavirus was first detected in the region in São Paulo in late February 2020, AFP has recorded over 1,001,400 deaths – almost 30 percent of the global total – and more than 31.5 million cases.
Nearly 90 percent of the fatalities have been notched in just five countries, which represent 70 percent of the region's total population: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Peru.