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Uruguay has the world’s highest death toll per capita.
Administering a coronavirus shot during a vaccination day for homeless people in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Thursday.Credit.Raul Martinez/EPA, via Shutterstock
By Daniel Politi
May 14, 2021, 5:02 a.m. ET
BUENOS AIRES For most of the past year, Uruguay was held up as an example for keeping the coronavirus from spreading widely as neighboring countries grappled with soaring death tolls.
Uruguay’s good fortune has run out. In the last week, the small South American nation’s Covid-19 death rate per capita was the highest in the world, according to data compiled by The New York Times.
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Uruguay, a country that has already been an example in Latin America in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, currently has the highest number of new daily cases per capita in the world.
According to the AFP news agency’s report, the country has recorded around 1370 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, while no other nation has exceeded 1,000 daily contagions per 100,000 inhabitants on this period, according to statistics compiled on the official database – Brazil had 335.65 cases per 100,000 inhabitants on Tuesday (13).
On Monday (12), the Uruguayan government recorded the highest number of deaths in 24 hours since the start of the health crisis in March 2020, with 71 deaths from Covid-19. The country of 3.5 million inhabitants already has around 149,000 cases and 1,595 victims of the virus.