RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil registered record daily numbers of infections and deaths from the new coronavirus Wednesday, sending its overall death toll sur...
: Brazil registered record daily numbers of infections and deaths from the new coronavirus Wednesday, sending its overall death toll surging past 90,000 people.
Experts say under-testing in the country of 212 million people means the real numbers are probably much higher.The health ministry had said Tuesday that problems with its online reporting system had delayed figures from Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous state and the one with the most cases and deaths.Still, the numbers paint a bleak picture of how the country is faring against the virus.
“The testing program in Brazil has expanded a lot in recent weeks. That’s an extremely important point,“ Arnaldo Medeiros, secretary for health vigilance, told a news conference.The far-right leader has dismissed the virus as a “little flu” and attacked lockdown measures by state and local authorities to contain it, arguing the economic fallout could be worse than the disease.
Like US President Donald Trump, whom he admires, Bolsonaro touts the drug as a remedy for the virus, despite a slate of scientific studies finding it has no effect against Covid-19 and can cause serious side effects.
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