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Chilean woman recovers from Covid-19 aged 111
Juana Zúñiga contracted the virus at her care home near Santiago, where she is the oldest resident.
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Chilean woman recovers from Covid-19 aged 111
Juana Zúñiga contracted the virus at her care home near Santiago, where she is the oldest resident.
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Covid-19 deaths continue to soar in Brazil
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Venezuela 'not prepared for pandemic'
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Roma director Cuarón makes plea for housekeepers
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El Salvador president: Most world leaders taking 'Trump drug'
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First same-sex weddings held in Costa Rica
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Chilean woman recovers from Covid-19 aged 111
Juana Zúñiga contracted the virus at her care home near Santiago, where she is the oldest resident.
![Gravediggers wearing protective suits bury the coffin of Izolina de Sousa, 85, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Vila Formosa cemetery, Brazil"s biggest cemetery, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 26, 2020](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20200529114417/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/FE76/production/_112524156_061644018.jpg)
Covid-19 deaths continue to soar in Brazil
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Venezuela 'not prepared for pandemic'
Human Rights Watch are warning that the Venezuelan healthcare system is not prepared for the pandemic.
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Wreck of 200-year-old sailing ship located off Mexico
They have named the wreck after the fisherman who first spotted it off the coast of Quintana Roo.
![Alfonso Cuarón poses with Oscars ring the 86th Academy Awards in 2014](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20200529114417/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/C1B7/production/_112519594_8c4fc787-7fb0-44d7-b8fc-563ed9b9883a.jpg)
Roma director Cuarón makes plea for housekeepers
He says domestic workers laid off during the Covid-19 pandemic should continue to receive pay.
![El Salvador President Nayib Bukele participates in a news conference during a nationwide quarantine as El Salvador"s government undertakes steadily stricter measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in San Salvador, El Salvador May 26, 2020.](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20200529114417/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/BBF0/production/_112521184_061645389.jpg)
El Salvador president: Most world leaders taking 'Trump drug'
Nayib Bukele claims "most world leaders" are taking hydroxychloroquine to "ward off" the virus.
![Newlyweds Alexandra Quiros (L) and Dunia Araya (R) pose during their wedding in Heredia, Costa Rica, on May 26, 2020](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20200529114417/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/E2AE/production/_112503085_mediaitem112480214.jpg)
First same-sex weddings held in Costa Rica
The country is the first in Central America to allow same-sex couples to marry in landmark ruling.
![Gravediggers wearing protective suits bury the coffin of Izolina de Sousa, 85, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Vila Formosa cemetery, Brazil"s biggest cemetery, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 26, 2020](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20200529114417/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/FE76/production/_112524156_061644018.jpg)
Covid-19 deaths continue to soar in Brazil
Brazil is the worst-hit country in Latin America by far with almost 25,000 deaths.
![A group of merchants remain in the vicinity of of the "Las Pulgas" market in Maracaibo, Venezuela, 25 May 2020](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20200529114417/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/13120/production/_112521187_061635717.jpg)
Venezuela 'not prepared for pandemic'
Human Rights Watch are warning that the Venezuelan healthcare system is not prepared for the pandemic.
![The cannon of the wreck found off the Mexican coast](https://webarchiveweb.wayback.bac-lac.canada.ca/web/20200529114417/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/{width}/cpsprodpb/13328/production/_112523687_foto4.jpg)
Wreck of 200-year-old sailing ship located off Mexico
They have named the wreck after the fisherman who first spotted it off the coast of Quintana Roo.
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