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Apr 12, 2021
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) April is shaping up to be Brazil’s darkest month yet in the pandemic, with hospitals struggling with a crush of patients, deaths on track for record highs and few signs of a reprieve from a troubled vaccination program in Latin America’s largest nation.
The Health Ministry has cut its outlook for vaccine supplies in April three times already, to half their initial level, and the country’s two biggest laboratories are facing supply constraints.
The delays also mean tens of thousands more deaths as the particularly contagious P.1 variant of COVID-19 sweeps Brazil. It has recorded about 350,000 of the 2.9 million virus deaths worldwide, behind only the U.S. toll of over 560,000.
The Whistler Blackcomb resort was shut down by authorities on March 29
Officials in British Columbia, Canada, closed the resort after confirming 877 cases of Brazil s P.1 variant in the province
At least 84 people who visited the ski resort tested positive for the variant
None reported travel outside of Canada; it s unclear how variant arrived to resort
The P.1 variant has led to increasing infections in young people and it appears to be more contagious and more capable of reinfecting people than other variants
April is shaping up to be Brazil’s darkest month yet in the pandemic, with hospitals struggling with a crush of patients, deaths on track for record highs and few signs of a reprieve from a troubled vaccination program in Latin America's largest nation. The Health Ministry has cut its outlook for vaccine supplies in April…
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