Gender curfews in Latin America

The World

The overarching goal of almost every country on Earth is to lessen the spread of COVID-19. Many countries have instituted quarantines and curfews, but two countries have no instituted gender-based curfews. Panama is one of them. The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Panamanian epidemiologist Xavier Sáez-Llorens to find out the reasoning behind a gender-based curfew. 

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