Save earth from viral disease
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Answer:On March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the new Coronavirus or nCoV-2019 as a pandemic.
In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), thousands of confirmed cases have already been reported, in almost all the countries of the region, and an increasing number of deaths.
The number of cases, the number of deaths and the number of affected countries is expected to continue to increase.
Hygiene, social distancing and isolation measures are essential aspects as a public health response to stop the spread of the epidemic.
However, the implementation of these measures is an especially difficult challenge for a large percentage of the vulnerable population living in informal settlements, where overcrowded conditions lead to the transmission of diseases[1], such as asthma[2
Worldwide, 863 million people in developing countries live in informal settlements[3].
They also cannot count on the possibility to wash their hands frequently because they do not have safe water, and neither do they manage waste properly because their neighborhoods do not provide sanitation solutions.
At the present time, a large part of this population is faced with the choice between social isolation or hunger since they live on what they earn daily.
In these neighborhoods, vulnerable populations such as migrants, women, and other groups such as disabled persons, indigenous peoples, people of African descent, and LGTBQ+ people are often overrepresented.
They also cannot count on the possibility to wash their hands frequently because they do not have safe water, and neither do they manage waste properly because their neighborhoods do not provide sanitation solutions.