Failed COVID-19 response drives Brazil to humanitarian catastrophe
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After accounting for over a quarter of global COVID-19 deaths last week, Brazil does not have an effective plan in place to deal with the pandemic.
The pandemic in the country has become politicised, and the government has not adopted science-based measures to try to bring it under control.
MSF urges the Brazilian authorities to immediately convene a centralised and coordinated response to COVID-19.
More than 12 months into Brazil’s COVID-19 emergency, there is still no effective, centralised and coordinated public health response to the outbreak. The lack of political will to adequately respond to the pandemic is killing Brazilians in their thousands. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urgently calling on Brazilian authorities to acknowledge the severity of the crisis and to put in place a central COVID-19 response and coordination system to prevent further avoidable deaths.