A pandemic atlas: How COVID-19 took over the world in 2020

December 25, 2020

A pandemic atlas: How COVID-19 took over the world in 2020Almost no place has been spared — and no one. The virus that first emerged a year ago in Wuhan, China, swept across the world in 2020, leaving havoc in its wake. ___The story of COVID-19 in BRAZIL is the story of a president who insists the pandemic is no big deal. Go deeper: Kenya’s youth suffer collateral damage___For months PERU held the grim title of first worldwide in per capita COVID-19 deaths. The nations of the world ran the gamut in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic — sometimes veering from strict to lax measures in the course of just a few months, or vice versa.