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Sarah Teófilo Wesley Oliveira
Posted on 11/22/2020 10:49 PM / Updated on 11/22/2020 11:01 PM
(credit: Wilson Dias / Agência Brasil)
Congressman Osmar Terra (MDB) was admitted this Sunday (11/22) at the São Lucas Hospital of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS). On the 13th, the congressman announced that he tested positive for covid-19. The hospital said in a statement that Terra was hospitalized for tests and will continue under observation for the next few days, without specifying a discharge plan.
On his Twitter page, the deputy confirmed that he is in the unit for tests and complementary physiotherapy to treat the disease.
Since the start of the new coronavirus pandemic, the deputy underestimated the disease. In a debate promoted by the Twitter In March, Terra said that fewer than 2,100 people would die in Brazil, which was the number of deaths when H1N1 appeared in 2009. “Brazil will not be Italy, it will not be Spain. It will be much warmer because of the temperature here in Brazil, ”he said at the time. Land is also a big critic of social isolation measures.
Currently, Brazil, with 169,200 deaths from the disease, is the second country in the world with the highest number of deaths in the world, according to a survey by Johns Hopkins University (USA), only behind the United States. Italy ranks sixth in the ranking and Spain ninth.
I am doing evaluation tests and complementary physiotherapy in the treatment of Covid, at the Hospital da PUC-RS, with the aim of accelerating the return to work as soon as possible.
– Osmar Terra (@OsmarTerra) November 22, 2020
At the beginning of June, the congressman, who was Minister of Citizenship until February of this year, said that the contagion curve of covid-19 had already peaked and that the epidemic would end in June. At that time, the country had 28,900 confirmed cases of the disease and 1,300 deaths.
The contagion curve for Covid 19 has already peaked and is falling during the month of May, as we forecast. All the most affected cities have decreases in daily hospitalization. The trajectory of the virus ignored the quarantine, did not flatten any curves. The epidemic ends in June. pic.twitter.com/wXmlyo6h29
– Osmar Terra (@OsmarTerra) June 2, 2020
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