SAO PAULO, Brazil broke its record for new daily Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday with nearly 2,000 fatalities, as the pandemic overwhelms hospitals and vaccinations progress slowly.<\/p>\n
The Health Ministry reported a daily total of 1,972 new deaths in the country, which has the world\u2019s second-highest overall toll, exceeded only by the United States.<\/p>\n
It also reported 70,764 new cases of Covid-19, meaning 11.1 million people have now caught the virus in the country, while a total of 268,370 have died.<\/p>\n
The previous daily death record was set on March 3 with just over 1,900 fatalities. The figure has been rising steadily over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n
Brazil is facing a dire situation with intensive care units more than 80 percent occupied in 25 of Brazil\u2019s 27 capital cities, according to a report released Tuesday by public health institute Fiocruz.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fight against Covid-19 was lost in 2020 and there is not the slightest chance of reversing this tragic circumstance in the first half of 2021,\u201d epidemiologist Jesem Orellana of Fiocruz\/Amazonia told AFP.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe best we can do is hope for the miracle of mass vaccination or a radical change in the management of the pandemic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, Brazil is a threat to humanity and an open-air laboratory where impunity in management seems to be the rule.\u201d<\/p>\n
President Jair Bolsonaro, who flouts expert advice on fighting the coronavirus, last week urged Brazilians to \u201cstop whining\u201d about Covid-19 and renewed his attacks on stay-at-home measures.<\/p>\n
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, has urged the country to take aggressive steps, warning that Brazil could affect its neighbors and beyond if it didn\u2019t take the virus seriously.<\/p>\n
Brazil\u2019s vaccine campaign is progressing slowly. A total of 8.6 million people (4.1 percent of the population) have received a first dose of vaccine, and only 2.9 million have received a second dose.<\/p>\n
The vaccines under use in Brazil are CoronaVac, which was developed by Chinese firm Sinovac, and the AstraZaneca\/Oxford vaccine.<\/p>\n
Brazil\u2019s Ministry of Health says it is in negotiations with other laboratories and recognizes that \u201cthe national vaccination campaign may be interrupted for lack of doses,\u201d according to a letter to the Chinese ambassador published Tuesday on the news site G1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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