This paper aimed to give the visibility of Latin American researchers' contributions to the comprehension of COVID-19; our method was a literature review.Currently, the world is facing a health and socioeconomic crisis caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and its disease COVID-19.Therefore, in less than four months, researchers have published a significant number of articles related to this novel virus.For instance, a search focused on the Scopus database on April 10, 2020, showed 1224 documents published by authors with 1797 affiliations from 80 countries.25.4%, 24.0%, and 12.6% of these national affiliations were from China, Europe, and the USA, respectively, making these regions leaders in COVID-19 research.In the case of Latin America, on April 10, 2020, we searched different databases, such as Scopus, PubMed, and Web of Science, finding that the contribution of this region was 2.7±0.6% of the total publications found.In other words, we found 153 publications related to COVID-19 with at least one Latin American researcher.We summarized and processed the information from these 153 publications, finding active participation in topics like medical, social, and environmental considerations, bioinformatics, and epidemiology.