“Once this virus gets going in countries like Africa, India, Pakistan, Mexico, and other South American countries, it could be devastating. It will be hard to keep count.”
It is already going strong in South America, Central America, Central Asia, and probably significantly worse in Africa (but there is less anecdotal evidence for that).
I have a friend in Brazil, said the residents were partying it up in the slums during lockdown.
I have another friend in Kenya that says nothing is going on - he’s still in the race/age/gender/blood type matters realm, so not fully taking it seriously. I know his whole family and they are all thin and relatively fit. Still only 4 deaths there, officially.
It's not a far stretch of the imagination to theorize that whenever you have large groups of people, without personal protective equipment, in extremely close proximity, yelling, drinking, and eating together, the chances of a virus spreading among them greatly increases.