Possibilites of "Crushing" the Transmission Curve of COVID-19 in Latn America - We Stll Have Time Samuel Pecho-Silva 1,2 , Ana Claudia Navarro-Solsol 3 , Kovy Arteaga-Livias 2,4 , Vicky Panduro-Correa 4 , Kuldeep Dhama 5  and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales 2,6,7 * 1 Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliat Martns, Lima, Peru. 2 Universidad Cientfca del Sur, Lima, Peru. 3 Universidad Nacional de Ucayali. Pucallpa, Peru. 4 Facultad de Medicina. Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizan. Huanuco, Peru. 5 Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Insttute, Izatnagar 243 122, Bareilly, Utar Pradesh, India. 6 Public Health and Infecton Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia. 7 Grupo de Investgacion Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. Abstract Latn America is suppose to have signifcant advantages over other developing regions, such as Asia and Africa, given the tme where the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causing the Coronavirus Diseases 2019 (COVID-19), arrived, mainly from Europe. This occurred on February 26, 2020. Then, multple previous measures were taken in order to prevent and mitgate the impact of pandemic in the region. In the current mini-review update we discuss the possibilites of "crushing" the transmission curve of COVID-19 in the region afer two months of the arrival of this emerging coronavirus. Keywords: Latn America, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, epidemiology, preventon, control *Correspondence: arodriguezm@utp.edu.co (Received: May 03, 2020; accepted: May 11, 2020) Citaton: Pecho-Silva S, Navarro-Solsol AC, Arteaga-Livias K, et al. Possibilites of "Crushing" the Transmission Curve of COVID-19 in Latn America - We Stll Have Time. J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2020;14(suppl 1):713-716. doi: 10.22207/JPAM.14.SPL1.06 © The Author(s) 2020. Open Access. This artcle is distributed under the terms of the Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distributon, and reproducton in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creatve Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Pecho-Silva et al. | J Pure Appl Microbiol | 14(suppl 1):713-716 | May 2020 Artcle 6326 | htps://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.14.SPL1.06 Print ISSN: 0973-7510; E-ISSN: 2581-690X MINI REVIEW OPEN ACCESS www.microbiologyjournal.org 713 Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology