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		</div><p>Paraguay was dubbed “an island surrounded by land” by its most famous writer and the nation’s isolation seems to have helped it ward off the worst of the pandemic.</p>
<p>The writer, Augusto Roa Bastos, coined the term to sum up a nation which, although landlocked, keeps itself to itself.</p>
<p>The nation of some seven million people has recorded only 10 deaths as it shelters behind frontiers largely closed to guard against the illness, its once-busy border bridges are empty save for a stray dog or two.</p>
<p>It has recorded fewer than 750 confirmed cases, most of those among people who were placed in mandatory quarantine for 14 days after entering from Brazil or Argentina.</p>
<p>Some have been housed in military barracks, some in hotels.</p>
<p>Regularly scheduled flights have been cancelled as well, leaving just a few planes on humanitarian missions, often bringing home Paraguayans who had been stranded abroad, or carrying foreigners to their own homelands, all after being checked for temperature.</p>
<p>Paraguay was among the first in the region to impose tight restrictions in March, telling people to stay home except to get food, medicine or medical care.</p>
<p>Schools have long since closed, churches are empty and buses have been halted, forcing some some to sleep where they work.</p>
<p>Still, many venture out to find something to eat, or the money to buy it.</p>
<p>A few ignore quarantine restrictions to cast fishing lines into the Paraguay River.<br />
Some line up for packages of food handed out at elementary schools.</p>
<p>And some scrounge for what they can find in the rubbish bins of the central food distribution market in Asuncion, the capital.</p>
<p>The country also has been among the first to ease up.</p>
<p>As of May 4, the government allowed many businesses to resume.</p>
<p>Builders once again set to work on projects — at least those in the open air.</p>
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