Possibilities of "Crushing" the Transmission Curve of COVID-19 in Latin America - We Still Have Time

ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

Mini Review | Open Access

Samuel Pecho-Silva^1,2, Ana Claudia Navarro-Solsol³, Kovy Arteaga-Livias^2,4, Vicky Panduro-Correa⁴, Kuldeep Dhama⁵ and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales^2,6,7

¹Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins, Lima, Peru.

²Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Lima, Peru.

³Universidad Nacional de Ucayali. Pucallpa, Peru.

⁴Facultad de Medicina. Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizan. Huanuco, Peru.

⁵Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar 243 122, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India.

⁶Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia.

⁷Grupo de Investigacion Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.

J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2020;14(suppl 1):713-716 | Article Number: 6326

https://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.14.SPL1.06 | © The Author(s). 2020

Received: 03/05/2020 | Accepted: 11/05/2020 | Published: 14/05/2020

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Abstract

Latin America is suppose to have significant advantages over other developing regions, such as Asia and Africa, given the time where the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causing the Coronavirus Diseases 2019 (COVID-19), arrived, mainly from Europe. This occurred on February 26, 2020. Then, multiple previous measures were taken in order to prevent and mitigate the impact of pandemic in the region. In the current mini-review update we discuss the possibilities of “crushing” the transmission curve of COVID-19 in the region after two months of the arrival of this emerging coronavirus.

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Latin America, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, epidemiology, prevention, control

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