Brazil became on Friday the second country in the world where the coronavirus kills the most, behind the United States, surpassing the United Kingdom in the count of death of victims of the pandemic, with 41.828 dead. The ministry of Health reported in the evening of 909 excess deaths in the last 24 hours in the largest country in Latin America, where the pandemic is far from being controlled.
This mainland country of 212 million inhabitants, is also the second for the number of infections, behind the United States, with 828.810 case, according to the official data. These figures, believes the scientific community, could be ten or even fifteen times higher in reality, the country is not testing that very few of its population. Reported in proportion to its population, Brazil, however, recorded 199 deaths per one million inhabitants, which places it largely behind the United States (344) or the United Kingdom (611).
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State of Sao Paulo and its population of 46 million is by far the most affected, with a quarter of the dead of all the land (10.368) and 167.900 contamination confirmed. Then comes the one in Rio de Janeiro, with 7.417 deaths and nearly 78.000 cases of contamination. These two States have, however, started these last few days the resumption of economic activity, with the opening of numerous stores.
Three and a half months after the first reported case, on 26 February, in Sao Paulo, the contaminations are rising at an alarming rate: nearly 26,000 over the course of the past 24 hours, according to the ministry of Health. In addition, after you have hit the biggest cities, the pandemic wins now, inexorably, to the interior of this vast country, undermining the health systems in the medium-sized cities and small.
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“The situation in Brazil is alarming, all States are affected,” said Friday Mike Ryan, the director issues a health emergency the world health Organization (WHO), during a press conference in the video conferencing. In Brazil, “the health system is not fully saturated, but in some areas there is a strong pressure on the bed occupancy in intensive care”, he added.
These remarks were responding to an initiative of the president Jair Bolsonaro, slammed as irresponsible by many brazilian. “It would be well that you should go to a hospital near you ( … ), and find a way to get in to film”, launched the head of State during its transmission weekly on Thursday night on Facebook. “A lot of people already do, but it would take more than that, to show whether the beds are occupied or not”, he continued. “According to my information, I may be mistaken, but practically no one has lost life due to lack of respirator or a bed in the intensive care unit”, said the president of the extreme right.
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However, caregivers have reported to the brazilian press of the obligation in discomfort in which they found themselves to make a choice between patients for lack of respirators. Since the beginning of the pandemic, some health officials have referred to at times an occupation of more than 95% of beds in intensive care units in many States, even if this rate has fallen in recent days in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
“If Bolsonaro was at the height of its function, ( … ), he should know that he does not need to send people to invade hospitals. (…) If he wants to visit our hospitals, I show him myself,” responded on Twitter Flavio Dino, governor of the State of Maranhao (northeast). The president, who has downplayed the health crisis, and is fiercely hostile to the containment – has never rendered to patients or caregivers in the hospitals. It has, likewise, not expressed empathy for the tens of thousands of dead, their families, or the nursing staff made a very tough test for weeks.
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The infernal machine is in action. They are still in the exponential phase of growth. At least 60000 people dead by the end of June and more than 90000 for the end of July ?
h l 1the 14/06/2020 at 12:00 am
This is true, it is the lies of the brazilian presidency, as well as its willingness to manipulate the population to pass democratic tools. And I invite the supporters of Bobo to go there to live test the hospital system.
Arachidle 13/06/2020 18:18
Article intentionally misleading, whereas mortality due to virus-chinese in Brazil is very less than that recorded in France while France has reduced voluntarily its figures by not counting the deaths in the home.
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