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Now this is obviously what Cummings should have done, amazing that he didn't think of it:

The mayor of a small town in Peru played dead when police snared him flouting lockdown rules to allegedly drink with friends.

Jaime Rolando Urbina Torres, mayor of Tantara, hid in a coffin and faked his own death when officers arrived to arrest him, police said.

A picture released by local police shows him lying in an open casket with a face mask on, while his friends are said to have hid in drawers.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/peru-mayor-tantara-lockdown-a4447231.html

More seriously, it does seem to be hitting South America hard:

The South America continent [sic] has become the epicentre of the global pandemic with 2.1 million coronavirus cases.