South American Mercosur countries 8/14/2020

The  Mercosur (or Southern Common Market) countries (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur)  here include Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile and I have added Venezuela.

Cumulative Confirmed cases per million populationCumulative Deaths per million population
To assist in showing the deaths for those countries with lower numbers of %(deaths/ million population) we take the log base 10 of the y axis.Cumulative Deaths/confirmed cases
Daily confirmed cases per million population

 

Observations:

  • Chile recorded its first confirmed case Feb 23, followed by Brazil  on Feb 26.
  • Chile and Brazil followed by Argentina lead in terms of both confirmed cases and deaths. 
  • For the ratio deaths/confirmed cases Brazil takes the lead followed by a dead heat between Uruguay and Chile followed, in turn, by Argentina.
  • In terms of the ratio deaths/confirmed cases:
    •  Brazil, Argentina and Chile passed their peak in the April May time-frame. 
    • Then in June Chile started rising again, passed the first peak and continued rising.
    • Uruguay has remained fairly constant since May.
    • Argentina and Paraguay appear to be seeing an increase again in August.
    • Venezuela appears to have rapidly reduced the ratio and held it steady at about 1% since May. It also appears to have the lowest reported deaths. This is strange given the concerns over the Venezuelan Health care system and the impact of international sanctions (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Venezuela)
  • Looking at the daily confirmed cases per million population in Mercosur countries , Chile passed its peak in June. For the other countries, the daily confirmed cases are still increasing or flat.

South American Andean countries 8/14/2020

The sub-regions are roughly from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_Latin_America with Venezuela added.

Covid-19 confirmed cases per million population for South American Andean countriesCovid-19 deaths per million population for South American Andean Countries
Covid-19 cumulative confirmed cases for South American Andean countriesCovid-19 daily confirmed cases for South America Andean countries
  

Observations:

  • The first confirmed case was from Ecuador on Mar 1, followed by both Columbia and Peru on Mar 6. Bolivia was the last country to announce a confirmed case on Mar 11.
  • Peru leads in both number of confirmed case, number of confirmed case per million population and deaths per million population.
  • Bolivia had the highest per cent deaths per confirmed cases (or Case Fatality Ration - CFR), followed by Bolivia.
  • It does not appear that any of the Andean countries have passed the peak of daily confirmed cases.

South America  6/30/2020

The sub-regions are roughly from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_Latin_America.

Deaths vs confirmed
Deaths/K population vs confirmed/K population
Bubble chart of days between first confirmed case and first death


Observations

  • Brazil recorded the first confirmed Covid-19 case on February 24.
  • Argentina recorded the first death on March 11, 8 days after its first recorded case. At this time it had 31 recorded confirmations.
  • Brazil's first recorded death was March 16, by which time it had 372 recorded confirmations.

  • In terms of deaths/K population vs confirmed/K population:

    • the leading counties are Chile (CL), Peru (PE), Brazil (EC), and Ecuador (EC).

    • and Venezuela (VE) has the lowest values.
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