Covid-19 imprints in Latin America

• Authors: Karol Derwich , Zulia Orozco

Title variants

PL

COVID-19 w Ameryce Łacińskiej

Abstracts

EN

The article reviews the reaction of selected Latin American countries to the pandemic of Covid-19. The authors examine the situation in which the countries where touched by the pandemic and the initial reactions toward the unusual situation in which the world has been found at the beginning of 2020. The authors analyse the data that are fundamental for the analysis of the situation of selected countries in the period of pandemic. In the article readers can find the analysis of the health sector condition when it was hit by the pandemic. It also goes further to check if the reactions of particular countries brought positivie or negative efects. In the end, the authors analize the politics of vaccination in particular countries of Latin America and are debating if it could be called a vaccine geopolitics.

Keywords

EN

Latin America; Covid-19; pandemia in Latin America; health care system; vaccination against Covid-19

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Ameryka Łacińska. Kwartalnik analityczno-informacyjny
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 2 (112)
• Pages: 1-22

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Karol Derwich

• Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

author

Zulia Orozco

• Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7311/20811152.2021.112.01

Biblioteka Nauki

23202350