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Brazil, the Latin American country most affected by the pandemic, appears to be rapidly becoming a new global outbreak point for the coronavirus.
The total number of deaths in the country now exceeds 12,400, with 177,589 confirmed cases of COVID-19, an increase of 9,258 per day.
Brazil now ranks seventh in the world in terms of the number of people infected.
“Of course, the increase in the number of cases (in Brazil) in recent days is worrying,” Marcos Espinalis, head of the Department of Communicable Diseases of the Pan American Health Organization, said at a press conference in Washington.
According to experts, due to insufficient evidence, the actual figures in Brazil are much higher.
“In Brazil, only people who go to the hospital are evaluated,” said Domingo Alves, one of the authors of a study published last week. According to this study, the actual number of COVID-19 infected in the country is 15 times higher than that officially announced.
“It is difficult to know what is really happening.” We do not have a true outbreak management policy. The pandemic develops to your liking, “Alves told AFP.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been criticized for minimizing the pandemic, comparing the virus to the “mild flu,” condemning the “hysteria” that surrounds it and calling on state and local authorities to end quarantine measures.
To date, the highest number of coronavirus deaths, 751, was recorded on May 8.
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