Chile and Uruguay are experiencing their worst moment of COVID-19 pandemic
Chile and Uruguay emerged as model cases last year for their handling of the COVID-19 crisis and are among the top five countries in the world with the most vaccine doses administered per 100 people daily. But both countries are now experiencing their worst moment of the pandemic with sustained peaks of daily COVID-19 infections.
The relaxation of self-care measures hand hygiene, masks and social distancing along with the political handling of the crisis, and the appearance of more infectious variants, may be some of the factors behind this situation, say experts.
Chile and Uruguay, from model to emergency
By the first week of April, Chile had received close to 15 million doses of vaccines from the Sinovac and Pfizer laboratories. Copyright: Chilean Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation.
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