Coronavirus stokes fear among Venezuelan migrants in Latin America

People walk inside a station of the Transmilenio bus system before the four-day mandatory isolation decreed by the mayor of Bogota, as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is enforced in Bogota, Colombia March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Leonardo Munoz.

BOGOTA/LIMA (Reuters) - For millions of Venezuelan migrants who fled the crisis in their homeland, many struggling daily in countries across Latin America to afford food and rent, the spread of coronavirus threatens to bring new hardship.

More than 4 million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015, as economic and political upheaval caused shortages of food and basic goods as well as the collapse of the health and education systems.