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The COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala is a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Guatemala in March 2020.
One year later, it was purchased by the owners of Prensa Libre, Guatemala's best-selling newspaper. [1] In 2001, the Periódico offices were attacked by a group of fifty protesters after reporting on alleged corruption in the staff of Communications Minister Luis Rabbé. The crowd attempted to force the building's doors and set it on fire, and ...
This is a general overview and status of places affected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus which causes coronavirus disease 2019 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, the capital of the province of Hubei in China in December 2019. It ...
Nuestro Diario, the most widely circulated newspaper in Central America [8] El Periódico [9] Publinews, the first free daily in Guatemala [10] El Quetzalteco, based in Quetzaltenango; digital only and part of Prensa Libre [11] [12] El Siglo [13] Siglo Veintiuno [14] La Voz del Migrante [15] La Epoca, no longer in circulation; El Gráfico, no ...
COVID-19 is the deadliest pandemic in US history; [361] it was the third-leading cause of death in the US in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. [362] From 2019 to 2020, US life expectancy dropped by 3 years for Hispanic Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for white Americans. [363]
At the beginning of December 2022, the third anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak was commemorated. As of 24 November 2024, 115 countries and territories have at least 200,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, and of them, 90 (18 out of 23 or nearly 78.3%) have at least half a million confirmed COVID-19 cases, incl. Egypt and Hungary.
The human coronavirus NL63 shared a common ancestor with a bat coronavirus (ARCoV.2) between 1190 and 1449 CE. [76] The human coronavirus 229E shared a common ancestor with a bat coronavirus (GhanaGrp1 Bt CoV) between 1686 and 1800 CE. [77] More recently, alpaca coronavirus and human coronavirus 229E diverged sometime before 1960. [78]
SARS-CoV-2 is the seventh known coronavirus to infect people, after 229E, NL63, OC43, HKU1, MERS-CoV, and the original SARS-CoV. [105] Like the SARS-related coronavirus implicated in the 2003 SARS outbreak, SARS‑CoV‑2 is a member of the subgenus Sarbecovirus (beta-CoV lineage B). [106] [107] Coronaviruses undergo frequent recombination. [108]