Open AccessIntroduction to Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Covid19 in Latin America
Author(s) -
Angus McNelly
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
alternautas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2057-4924
DOI - 10.31273/alternautas.v8i1.1118
Subject(s) - latin americans , pandemic , covid-19 , political science , history , geography , development economics , economic history , economic growth , virology , medicine , law , economics , outbreak , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
COVID-19 arrived in Latin America in late-February 2020, with the first registered case in São Paulo, Brazil. By late-July, the region had the most cases of any region in the world. By April 2021, Latin America had been hit by its third wave of the pandemic, registering more than 57 million cases and 1.3 million deaths. This introduction to Alternautas’ Special Issue on Critical Perspectives on COVID-19 in Latin America provides the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic for the rest of the issue. It traces the global reverberations of COVID-19 and explores how they played out in Latin America, before then summarising the contributions of each of the articles in the issue in turn.