The COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). As of 16 May 2024, a total of 10,131,409 people were confirmed to have been infected, and 130,857 people were known to have died because of the virus.^[35]

On 3 March 2020, the virus was confirmed to have spread to Argentina.^{[36][37][38][39]} On 7 March 2020, the Ministry of Health confirmed the country's first documented death, a 64-year-old man who had travelled to Paris, France, who also had other health conditions; the case was only confirmed as positive after the patient's demise.^[40]

On 19 March 2020, a nationwide lockdown was established in Argentina.^[41][42] The lockdown was lifted throughout all the country, excepting the Greater Buenos Aires urban area (where 31.9% of the country's population live),^[43] on 10 May, with Greater Buenos Aires locked down until 17 July, where the lockdown was due to be gradually loosened in several stages to lead to the return to normality;^[44] restrictions were extended several times until 8 November 2020.^[45] During the second wave, another nationwide lockdown took place from 22 to 31 May 2021.^[46]

Responses to the outbreak have included restrictions on commerce and movement, closure of borders, and the closure of schools and educational institutions.^[47] Clusters of infections and deaths have occurred in nursing homes, prisons and other detention centers, and urban areas.^[48][49] The number of tests increased over time, although there were some concerns as there was less testing than in other countries of the region such as Chile and Peru.^[50] Even so, the government's responses to the pandemic were among the best received by the population in the region during the early stages of the pandemic.^[51]

The COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia was 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 spread to Bolivia on 10 March 2020, when its first two cases were confirmed in the departments of Oruro and Santa Cruz.^[52][53]

On 12 March, Bolivia suspended all public school sessions until 31 March, as well as all commercial flights to and from Europe indefinitely. They also prohibited large-scale public gatherings of more than 1,000 people.^[54]

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