COVID-19: Chile death toll tops 10,000

While Brazil rightly gets most of the attention in Latin America, other countries are also passing grim milestones.

While much attention is focused on Brazil’s fight against the coronavirus, other Latin American countries are also struggling to contain surging outbreaks.

Peru has hit 20,000 deaths.

On Saturday, Chile reached more than 10,000; it has one of the highest death tolls per million people anywhere in the world.

Al Jazeera’s Alessandro Rampietti reports from Bogota, Colombia.

By Alessandro Rampietti