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Bolsonaro has become known for not taking the corona pandemic seriously. He has called the disease, which has killed more than a quarter of a million people in Brazil, “a little flu.” It has been criticized for not taking sufficient measures to reverse the spread of the infection and ensure that the country has access to vaccines.
While the death toll is rising, with nearly 2,000 deaths every day, the president is urging Brazilians to keep going, Reuters reports.
– There must be enough fussing and whining. How much longer will the crying go on, ”Bolsonaro said at an event on Thursday.
– How much longer should you stay at home and keep everything closed. No one can handle this anymore. We apologize for the deaths, but we must find a solution, the president told Reuters.
The spread of the infection has skyrocketed again in Brazil and in several places medical care is collapsing. On Thursday, news came that the largest city in South America in São Paulo with 12 million inhabitants is partially closed again.
From the researchers There will also be warnings if people who have already had Covid-19 become ill again with the Brazilian variant of the virus.
The Brazilian variant was discovered in January in Japan in four Brazilian tourists from Manaus in the Amazon, an area that was hit hard by the pandemic last spring. The new variant of the virus has quickly become dominant in the isolated city in the rainforest of two million inhabitants. As the pandemic gained new momentum in Manaus towards the turn of the year, doctors and researchers noted with growing surprise that people who had already had COVID-19 fell ill a second time.
According to Nuno Faria, a virologist at Imperial College London, studies show that the antibodies lose their effectiveness against the new variant of the virus. He tells the New York Times that “more and more evidence” points to the fact that most cases in the second wave in Manaus may be the result of people getting infected a second time.
The Brazilian doctor and researcher Miguel Nicolelis, affiliated with Duke University in the United States, warns that the fact that Brazil does not face the pandemic represents a danger for the entire world. In an interview with The Guardian, he describes the country as a breeding ground for new mutations.
– If you let the virus spread at the levels that are happening in Brazil today, it opens the door to even more dangerous variants. The world must begin to speak out energetically about the risk Brazil poses to the pandemic, Miguel Nicolelis told The Guardian.
He believes that it makes no sense for Europe and the United States to fight the pandemic as long as Brazil does nothing about the outbreak of the new variant of the virus.
