Brazil’s communist virus epidemic worsened, with the number of deaths exceeding 4,000 in a single day for the first time, according to information from the Ministry of Health on the 6th. Scientists predict that Brazil will soon surpass the worst record of the U.S. epidemic in January, calling it the biological Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Brazil’s Ministry of Health reported on the 6th that 4,211 new people have died of the disease in the past 24 hours, far exceeding the single-day record previously written in Brazil; 82,869 new cases were confirmed. Since the pandemic, a total of 337,364 people have died and 13,106,058 have been diagnosed.
Reuters, citing two experts, reported that Brazil’s health care system is on the verge of collapse and could surpass the U.S. total number of deaths, despite having only 2/3 of the population. The total number of deaths in the United States is currently 555,000
Miguel Nicolelis, a Brazilian physician who has been closely tracking the virus and is a professor at Duke University, said, “It’s like a nuclear reactor that has a chain reaction and is out of control, a biological Fukushima event.”
Brazil has seen a record number of single-day deaths every week since late February, mainly due to the spread of a more contagious regional variant of the strain of the virus, coupled with inadequate implementation of social distance, making the outbreak uncontrollable.
Reuters analysis, the United States under the mass vaccination, the number of infected people shrink, while Brazil has been the hardest hit by the epidemic, the global daily number of deaths, every 4 people among the 1 Brazilians.
A coffin is buried at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 31, 2021.
Public health experts believe the most effective measures to reduce the spread of the virus would be to wear masks and enforce lockdowns, but Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro does not see the need to implement them.
Researchers at the Fiocruz Foundation in Brazil reiterated on June 6 that only strict measures could prevent the April epidemic from being worse than March: March was the deadliest month since the Communist virus pandemic hit Brazil, with 66,868 deaths, twice as many as the first wave of the epidemic in July 2020, when 32,900 people died of the disease.
Margareth Dalcolmo, a Cruz Foundation researcher and pulmonologist, warned that Brazil could set a record for the number of deaths and confirmed cases of the epidemic in April, and that “only a national closure of the city for at least two weeks and full restriction of human traffic will reverse the trend and stop the infection.”
Júlio Croda, a researcher at the foundation and professor of infectious diseases at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), also predicted an unpromising outbreak in the coming weeks, but stressed that “the severity will depend on whether we maintain the restrictions or not.”
In an exclusive interview with BBC News Brasil, U.S. epidemiologist Anthony Fauci also noted the seriousness of the outbreak in Brazil and its spread across South America, and that strict public health measures such as increased vaccination rates and city closures will be necessary to contain its continued spread.
Despite this, the new Brazilian health minister, Marcelo Queiroga, has virtually ruled out the measure, saying that “the orders from the top are to avoid sealing off cities.”
On the other hand, the pace of vaccination in Brazil has been slow, with only 20,828,398 people receiving at least the first dose of the vaccine since January 17 of this year, representing 9.84% of the Brazilian population.
There are currently only two vaccines in Brazil, CoronaVac, developed by the Instituto Butantan, which is part of the São Paulo State Health Department, in collaboration with China’s Beijing Kexing Pharmaceuticals (Sinovac), and Astellicom’s AZ vaccine; 90% of which uses CoronaVac.
Brazil is also participating with a minimum quota (42 million doses) in the WHO-led global vaccine acquisition mechanism Covax, which has received only 1 million doses so far.
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