COVID-19 in Latin America: The implications of the first confirmed case in Brazil

Affiliations

• ¹ Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia; Master in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Lima, Peru. Electronic address: arodriguezm@utp.edu.co.
• ² Panel of Sports and Travel, Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• ³ National Responsible for Telehealth Program, Ministry of Health, La Paz, Bolivia.
• ⁴ Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
• ⁵ Departments of Physiological and Morphological Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
• ⁶ Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez, México City, Mexico.
• ⁷ Investigador SNI Senacyt Panamá, Clinical Research Deparment, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, Panamá City, Panama.
• ⁸ Dirección de Vigilancia de Enfermedades Transmisibles, Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social, Asunción, Paraguay.
• ⁹ Master in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Lima, Peru; Hospital de Emergencias José Casimiro Ulloa, Lima, Peru.
• ¹⁰ Hospital Evangélico de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
• ¹¹ Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.
• ¹² Institute of Infectious Diseases Emilio Ribas, São Paulo, Brazil.