The pandemic has hit the whole world hard and what at first seemed to be a passing thing has become a reality that we have to learn to live with, at least for a while longer.

Latin America is one of the regions that has been most affected by the coronavirus, as no country was prepared to face a situation of such magnitude. Although the arrival of the vaccine in Mexico brings hope to humanity that it will soon recover the normality that it misses, the lack of responsibility on the part of citizens has also led to more and more cases of COVID-19.

At least in Mexico, more than a quarter of the total number of COVID-19 deaths in Latin America have occurred, a more than alarming figure for the country's citizens and government, which has already begun vaccination campaigns in different states of the nation.

Last week's Christmas celebrations alone, the cases increased to a little over 15 million and are still rising, as every day a new number of infections appear in the news, further complicating the work of the health sector which unfortunately cannot always save all the affected patients.

Other countries that are on the list with the highest number of deaths from SARS-CoV-19 are Colombia, which recently recorded 200 deaths in just one day, followed by Brazil, which is attributed almost a third of all SARS-CoV-2 deaths in Latin America, and Chile, which has maintained its average number of infections since July, without showing any decrease.

The rise in deaths due to coronavirus can be stopped if we follow the recommendations and measures that health authorities have reiterated to us since the beginning of the pandemic thoroughly, such as constant handwashing, correct use of face masks, and constant disinfection of instruments that have contact with the outside world before entering and leaving home and step outside only if necessary.

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