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Brazil closed out its deadliest month of the coronavirus pandemic by far on Wednesday as a surge of COVID-19 patients overwhelmed hospitals, forcing doctors to make agonising decisions over whom to give life-saving care.
With 66,573 COVID-19 deaths in March, the health ministry recorded more than twice as many fatalities as the second-deadliest month of the pandemic in Brazil, July 2020, when there were 32,881 deaths. Never in Brazilian history have we seen a single event kill so many people in a single month, said doctor Miguel Nicolelis, former coordinator of the pandemic response team for Brazil s impoverished northeast.
With the southern hemisphere winter now approaching and the virus spreading fast, Brazil is facing a perfect storm, he told AFP. That s a threat not just for Brazil but for the entire world.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro names three new military chiefs
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Wednesday appointed new army, navy and air force chiefs one day after
announcing their predecessors’ departures, as the far-right leader weathers
the biggest crisis of his administration.
The new defense minister, General Walter Braga Netto, presented Army
General Paulo Sergio Nogueira de Oliveira, Navy Admiral Almir Garnier and Air
Force commander Brigadier Carlos Almeida Baptista Jr at a brief ceremony.
Braga Netto said the trio would all be “faithful to their constitutional
missions of defending the homeland, guaranteeing constitutional powers and
guaranteeing democratic freedoms.”
for an explosion of Covid-19 deaths, replacing his foreign, defense and
Brazil mly chiefs exit in new turmoil for Bolsonaro
World
April 1, 2021
BRASÍLIA: President Jair Bolsonaro will replace all three commanders of Brazil’s armed forces, his government said on Tuesday, the latest upheaval in Brasilia as the far-right leader braces against mounting criticism over an explosion of Covid-19 deaths.
The exit of the army, navy and air force chiefs came a day after Bolsonaro overhauled his cabinet, replacing the foreign, defence and justice ministers as well as his chief of staff, attorney general and government secretary.
Last week, he also installed his fourth health minister of the pandemic.
The turmoil comes as the government struggles to control a deadly surge of Covid-19 in Brazil, which has already killed more than 317,000 people in the country pushing many hospitals to the brink of collapse with a record of 3,780 deaths in the last 24 hours alone.
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