Covid-19 deaths hit new highs in Brazil as president tells people enough whining
Brazil is in the grip of a second wave driven by a highly infectious variant and a disjointed approach to restrictions
5 March 2021 • 1:56pm
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has told his countrymen and women to stop “fussing and whining” about the pandemic, following two consecutive days of record numbers of Covid-19 deaths.
The country, which already has the world’s second highest number of fatalities from the virus, is in the grip of a devastating second wave driven by a lethal pairing: the arrival of a highly infectious new variant and a disjointed approach to public health restrictions.
Preliminary data on the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca is effective against the P1, or Brazilian, variant, a source with knowledge of the study told Reuters on Friday.
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Brazil is facing a spike in Covid-19 deaths and an overwhelmed health care system. A more contagious variant of the virus may be part of the problem. Photo / Dado Galdieri, The New York Times
Brazil is facing a spike in Covid-19 deaths and an overwhelmed health care system. A more contagious variant of the virus may be part of the problem. Photo / Dado Galdieri, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Manuela Andreoni, Ernesto Londoño and Letícia Casado
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No other nation that experienced such a major outbreak is still grappling with record-setting death tolls and a health care system on the brink of collapse. Many other hard-hit nations are, instead, taking tentative steps toward a semblance of normalcy.
RIO DE JANEIRO â COVID-19 has already left a trail of death and despair in Brazil, one of the worst in the world. Now, a year into the pandemic, the country is setting another wrenching record.
No other nation that experienced such a major outbreak is still grappling with record-setting death tolls and a health care system on the brink of collapse. Many other hard-hit nations are, instead, taking tentative steps toward a semblance of normalcy.