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. 2021 Jun 5;11:03077. doi: 10.7189/jogh.11.03077

Table 1.

COVID-19 cases, deaths, and tests reported for Central America to April 2021*

Country Cases COVID-19 # deaths Tests Case fatality rate Cases/ 1M pop Deaths/ 1M pop Tests/ 1M pop Population (in millions)
Guatemala
216 329
7309
1 187 042
3.4%
13 029
440
71 491
16.6
El Salvador
68 007
2089
894 988
3.1%
10 538
324
138 681
6.5
Honduras
203 359
4981
567 813
2.4%
20 866
511
58 260
9.7
Nicaragua
13 806
3055

22.1%
2109
467

6.5
Costa Rica
233 498
3115
919 324
1.3%
46 260
617
182 132
5.0
Panama 361 678 6196 2 321 435 1.7% 85 172 1 459 546 678 4.2

*Sources: Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center [3], Worldometers [4], April 22, 2021. Except for Nicaragua: Nicaraguan COVID-19 Citizen Observatory data [5].