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Brazil Hospitals Face Pressure as Coronavirus Variant Spreads
March 11, 2021
COVID-19 patients lie on beds at a field hospital built inside a sports coliseum in Santo Andre, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, March 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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Many of Brazil’s hospitals face severe overcrowding as another version, or variant, of the new coronavirus spreads in the country.
Over the past week, Brazilian governors have tried to persuade President Jair Bolsonaro to offer a plan for states to slow the nation’s COVID-19 outbreak. The plan was to include a curfew, a ban on crowded events and limits on non-necessary services. Bolsonaro has rejected such plans.