"You had to isolate, you had to prevent people coming into your country," said Solis. Peru, Chile and Ecuador all closed their borders to foreigners in mid-March, while swiftly imposing tough quarantine measures that amounted to national lockdowns. But two months later, Peru has the second-most confirmed cases in Latin America, Chile has the third, and the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil experienced one of the world's worst-known localized outbreaks. The situations in those countries deteriorated despite widespread and proactive efforts by governments to contain the virus. Latin America has consistently been plagued with some of the world's worst economic inequality, leading to massive amounts of workers participating in the so-called informal economy.

Source: Daily Sun May 30, 2020 09:22 UTC