La pandemia del coronavirus y su impacto en Asia del Sur
Abstract
Asia del sur cuenta con algunos de los países más poblados del mundo (India, Pakistán y Bangladesh) y desde 2014, ha sido la zona de más rápido crecimiento en el mundo, con un crecimiento anual promedio de 7.0%, siendo ese desempeño impulsado fundamentalmente por India y Bangladesh, con una performance variada en las restantes economías (Song, 2019). En el contexto de la pandemia de coronavirus (COVID-19), iniciada en China, el 1· de diciembre de 2019, en la ciudad de Wuhan (provincia de Hubei, China) y declarada como pandemia por la Organización Mundial de la Salud, el 11 de marzo de 2020 (OMS, s.f.), este texto busca hacer una breve revisión del alcance de la misma en la región, cuya población es de alrededor de 2000 millones de personas, considerando Afganistán (más de 32 millones de personas), Bangladesh (más de 161 millones de personas), Bután (menos de 800.000 personas), India (más de 1.300 millones de personas), Maldivas (menos de 400.000 personas), Nepal (más de 28 millones de personas), Pakistán (más de 212 millones) y Sri Lanka (más de 21 millones de personas). Para ello, se comentará la cantidad de casos positivos, las muertes en cada país hasta el momento y las principales medidas adoptadas, reflexionando sobre el panorama regional, en base a información de organismos internacionales y noticias periódicas.
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