There were 2,286 Covid deaths on Wednesday and nearly 70,000 cases in Brazil which, over the last seven days, has ranked as the most deadly and most infectious in the world.
Brazil Governors Put Together One-Page COVID Relief Plan as Country s Hospital System Collapses
On 3/11/21 at 4:54 PM EST
Brazil s governors presented a plan for COVID-19 relief on Wednesday: a one-page document with broad guidance on restricting activities that provided little support to a nation crippled by the rapid spread of the virus. The state is pretty much collapsing, Dr. Pedro Hallal, an epidemiologist at Universidade Federal de Pelotas said to the BBC World Service. Intensive care unit capacity has reached over 90 percent in 15 of the nation s 27 capital cities, and in some states hundreds of people are waiting for ICU beds, according to the Associated Press. The nation reported over 2,000 deaths in a day on Wednesday.
Hospitals in Brazil buckle as COVID-19 variant cases surge across country David Biller and DeBora Alvares RIO DE JANEIRO Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account
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Brazil’s hospitals are faltering as a highly contagious coronavirus variant tears through the country, the president insists on unproven treatments and the only attempt to create a national plan to contain COVID-19 has just fallen short.
For the last week, Brazilian governors sought to do something President Jair Bolsonaro obstinately rejects: cobble together a proposal for states to help curb the nation’s deadliest COVID-19 outbreak yet. The effort was expected to include a curfew, prohibition of crowded events and limits on the hours non-essential services can operate.
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