Brazil’s temporary hospitals receive large number of newly crowned patients
Ninety-two variants of the Chinese communist virus (COVID-19) have been found in Brazil, including the more contagious Amazonian strain P1, which has become the dominant strain in the Brazilian epidemic and is now spreading outward from Brazil, ravaging the whole of South America and making the epidemic even more difficult.
Brazilian virologist Fernando Spilki (Fernando Spilki) pointed out that there are currently thousands of strains of variant viruses around the world, nearly 100 of which are prevalent in Brazil, and now the most worrying is that the P1 variant has become the dominant strain in Brazil, as well as the emergence of “double mutations” similar to those originating from the South African variant. ” strains of the virus.
The epidemic has caused 333,153 deaths and 13,023,189 confirmed cases in Brazil, the second highest number in the world. According to a study by the Cruz Foundation, P1 is now the dominant strain in 21 of Brazil’s 27 states, including Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
The Washington Post reported on May 5 that P.1 has not only swept through Brazil, but has spread with river basins and across borders in recent weeks, making it impossible to stop South America’s strict epidemic prevention measures. South American countries are worried that the P.1 virus may soon become the mainstream strain of the virus, so that South American countries are reduced to the same death spike as Brazil, patients face death due to medical collapse of the tragic situation.
Now Peru is not immune, in the Peruvian capital Lima, scientists found that 40% of patients diagnosed with the P.1 virus; a hospital in Lima physician Salome (Cesar Salome) said that for several weeks the influx of patients into the hospital more serious, lungs infiltrated by infection, will die within a few days, and even young people and healthy people can not escape the clutches of the virus.
In Uruguay, 30 percent of patients have been diagnosed with P.1. Paraguayan officials say half of the confirmed cases on the border with Brazil are with P.1. Other South American countries, including Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela and Chile, have also found traces of P.1.
“It’s spreading and it’s impossible to stop it,” said Julio Castro, a Venezuelan infectious disease expert.
Elena Candia Florentin, president of the Paraguayan Society for the Control of Infectious Diseases, also said that Paraguay’s chances of stopping the spread of P.1 are slim.
Currently, hospital systems across South America are being pushed to their limits. Uruguay, one of the richest countries in the region, is now on the verge of collapse of its health care system, and last month demonstrations erupted over a shortage of medical resources, with hospitals already running out of beds.
Health officials in Peru say they are also on the edge of a cliff, with only 84 intensive care beds left in the country by the end of March.
And the P.1 variant of the virus is super-spread and not limited to South America. It is difficult to confirm the true extent of the spread of P.1 because of limitations in detecting the genetic sequence of the virus, but more than 20 countries, from Japan to the United States, have confirmed the presence of the P.1 virus in their territories.
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