Although the Americas has so far been the most-affected region, Uruguay has reported the lowest number of cases and deaths in Latin America, both in total and on a per capita basis.
Uruguay has one of the most robust and resilient health systems in Latin America, with sustainable investment based on political consensus on the importance of investing in public health.
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巴基斯坦为抗击COVID-19利用了多年来为脊髓灰质炎而建立起来的基础设施。
Pakistan deployed the infrastructure built up over many years for polio to combat COVID-19.
Community health workers who have been trained to go door-to-door vaccinating children against polio have been redeployed and utilized for surveillance, contact tracing and care.
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这不仅抑制了病毒，而且随着国家的稳定，现在经济也开始复苏。
This has both suppressed the virus and, as the country stabilizes, the economy is also now picking up once again.
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要强调这样一个教训：各国的选择不是控制病毒或拯救经济；
Reinforcing the lesson that the choice is not between controlling the virus or saving the economy; the two go hand-in-hand.
Many of these countries learnt lessons from previous disease outbreaks of SARS, MERS, measles, polio, Ebola and flu to hone their health system and respond to this new pathogen.
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然而主要经验教训是相同的：即无论一个国家所处的疫情阶段如何，其扭转形势的努力永远不会太晚。
But the key lesson is the same: no matter where a country is in an outbreak, it is never too late to turn things around.