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In a report issued this Saturday, May 2 by the TVI television station, the mayor of the Brazilian city of Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, said he directed a video to the Portuguese prime minister, whom he said he knew personally and to whom he asked for help. , the one that “has been absent from the Brazilian federal government”, in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic.
Mayor Arthur Virgílio Neto denounced a “situation of despair”, of “lack of means to adequately face the disease.”
The state of Amazonas is one of the most affected in Brazil by the covid-19 pandemic, with 5,723 infected and 476 dead, according to the latest official statistics.
According to data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health, the country has 91,589 confirmed cases of infection and 6,329 deaths.
Globally, according to a report by the AFP news agency, covid-19, an acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus, has already caused more than 241,000 deaths and infected approximately 3.4 million people in 195 countries and territories.
More than a million patients were considered cured.
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