Nathan Jeffay is The Times of Israel s health and science correspondent
A healthcare worker prepares the material to test a child for COVID-19, on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
An Israeli aid delegation was set to land Tuesday in Uruguay, a country that went almost overnight from a low-COVID oasis to a notorious hotspot with the world’s second-highest rate of new cases.
The four-person team from Sheba Medical Center’s weeklong mission will focus on helping hospitals struggling to cope with the sudden skyrocketing of cases in recent weeks to establish new coronavirus facilities.
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