Concern over Covid-19 in Latin America increases despite easing in other parts of the world. FMTNews Covid19 Brazil
A health worker tests a toddler for Covid-19 at a village in Amazonas, Brazil yesterday.
“The Americas continues to account for the most cases,” World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a briefing in Geneva. The WHO has been holding clinical trials to find a treatment for Covid-19, which has killed more than 382,000 people and wrought vast economic damage since emerging in China late last year.“For several weeks, the number of cases reported each day in the Americas has been more than the rest of the world put together,” Tedros said.
But outside of Latin America nations are cautiously reopening schools, beaches and businesses after months of quarantine, even as some still face rising numbers of cases. “I don’t think we’ll see any foreign tourists really until the end of August or even September,” said Mimmo Burgio, a cafe owner near Rome’s Colosseum.Austria announced it would scrap virus controls on all land borders, except for Italy.
The vaccine will be tested in Brazil on 2,000 health services volunteers, said the Federal University of Sao Paulo, coordinating the study.
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