Trump is fever-free and his symptoms have “improved,” Conley said, adding that he will continue to monitor the president as he “returns to an active schedule.” Trump, who stayed in the hospital for three days before returning to the White House, has been pushing to return to the campaign. He is far behind his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, at the polls less than a month before the November 3 election.
Meanwhile, Brazil passed the grim scoreboard of 150,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Saturday, the Health Ministry said, as the rate of coronavirus infections continues to decline in the South American country. The figure comes as Latin America and the Caribbean marked 10 million cases on Saturday and more than 360,000 deaths. The region is the most affected in terms of fatalities, according to official figures. With 212 million inhabitants, Brazil has accumulated the most deaths in the region: 150,198 from Covid-19 since the first fatality was registered in March, and 5,082,637 infections, the ministry said.
It is the second highest national death toll in the world, after the United States, which has registered more than 213,000 deaths from Covid-19; and the third highest number of infections after the United States and India. In Latin America, Brazil is followed by Colombia, with 894,300 cases and 27,495 deaths; Argentina with 871,455 cases and 23,225 deaths; and Peru with 843,355 cases and 33,158 deaths. Mexico, although it has fewer cases with 809,751, has suffered a high number of deaths, the fourth highest in the world, with a figure of 83,507.
Brazil’s account has been slowly falling since it leveled off during the summer, which averaged around 1,000 deaths a day for two months. But experts say the decline is slow compared to countries in Europe and Asia, suggesting that Brazil may still be in its first wave of the virus. “It’s like going down from the Himalayas to the Alps, that is, you are still on a mountain,” José David Urbaez, a researcher at the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases, told AFP.
Still, with more therapies available and growing awareness, health experts say the system is coping much better than before. “I don’t know if the worst is over because we don’t know what’s coming, but we’ve certainly had worse moments than this,” said Jaques Sztajnbok, head of the intensive care unit at the Emilio Ribas Institute in Sao Paulo. the state with the highest number of deaths from Covid, he told AFP.
From the beginning, Brazil has faced the pandemic with its divided leaders. President Jair Bolsonaro has downplayed the disease from the start, despite having contracted it himself, and insists on returning to normal to avoid economic collapse. On the contrary, state governors and mayors applied social distancing measures at the beginning of the crisis, although with the pandemic hitting the economy, they have begun to relax restrictions in recent months. “I think we are getting numb with this situation. We hear so many bad things that we end up getting used to it,” student Caio Gomes told AFP during a walk along Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.
Since it emerged in China at the end of last year, the virus has killed more than a million worldwide, infected more than 36 million and forced millions more out of work as the pandemic hits the global economy.
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