Coronavirus: Uruguay and Argentina, head to head among the deadliest countries per capita – economic, financial and economic news

Uruguay arrived yesterday Tuesday at 14 consecutive days in the first place in the world in the average of deaths from covid-19 in proportion to its population. The country remains the most affected with around 15 deaths per million inhabitants, according to the Our world in data site, which collects data on the pandemic from all countries and territories on the planet.

Uruguay has been first in the ranking of deaths by country since May 5. It used to be two weeks in the top three places, and on that day it passed North Macedonia in the death register.

The top 5 were satisfied on Tuesday with Uruguay in first place, with 15.22 daily deaths per million inhabitants in the average of the last seven days, followed by Argentina (10.94), Paraguay (10.38), Colombia (9 , 88) and Trinidad and Tobago (9.49).

The countries with which Uruguay shared the first positions on the list of the deceased, such as Hungary and North Macedonia, their death toll per million has dropped significantly over the past two weeks. Hungary, which had a death rate of 27.8 per million population on April 13, had a death rate of 7.17 on Tuesday. North Macedonia, which reached its peak on May 2 with 17.8 deaths per million inhabitants, had 6.65 deaths on Tuesday.

In Uruguay, one in a thousand has died from coronavirus since the declaration of the health emergency on March 13. The 3,578 deaths recorded by Covid-19 out of a population of 3.54 million inhabitants mark this record.

Uruguay reached that level of deaths on Tuesday, but various countries in the region had already reached it. At Brazil and PeruThe two countries that have had the continent’s worst performance in terms of deaths throughout the pandemic, more than two in a thousand people have already died from the disease.

Brazil recorded an average of 9.08 deaths per million inhabitants on Tuesday, while Peru had 9.09.