By Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires and William Costa in Asunción
Despite sharing borders with Brazil, small countries can claim victory against virus
Latin America has become the new centre of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic but two small countries, Uruguay and Paraguay, have bucked the regional trend and can claim a near total victory against the virus.
Though they are strangely dissimilar – Uruguay is a progressive enclave with the lowest poverty index in Latin America, while Paraguay has poverty estimates of 30-50% and is rife with corruption – both nations have kept their coronavirus death rates surprisingly low.
Source: Uruguay and Paraguay buck Latin America coronavirus trend
Category: Coronavirus outbreak, Americas, World news, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil
