Streets vendors and shoppers wearing masks amid the spread of the new coronavirus fill a street in Lima, Peru, Monday, June 8, 2020, despite an extension of the state of emergency and quarantine, to June 30, to curb the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have recorded more than 1.5 million combined Covid-19 cases as of Thursday evening, according to Johns Hopkins University.
33 countries are included in this region: Brazil, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Panama, Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Uruguay, Jamaica, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, The Bahamas, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Belize, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis.
The region has a combined total of 1,508,683 confirmed cases, according to JHU’s tally.
