BRAZIL: “We’re sending people to the slaughterhouse"

sport j2 money culture scene video subscription TENS OF THOUSANDS IN 24H In Brazil, the number of infected is growing sharply after the measures were relaxed: 'We are sending people to the slaughterhouse' Schools are still closed, restaurants sell meals outside, but shopping malls have been open for two weeks Author: HinaPosted: June 25, 2020 7:36 am Coronavirus in Brazil Coronavirus in Brazil EVARISTO SA / AFP Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail RELATED NEWS 7996517 PANDEMIC The death toll from coronavirus in Latin America has exceeded 100,000. Brazil and Mexico are the most affected WHAT THE NEW REGIME MEANS There are exceptions: Who will not have to go into self-isolation after entering Croatia from BiH or Serbia The number of people infected with coronavirus in Brazil is growing again after the gradual abolition of epidemiological measures in some countries, which experts assess as premature. On Wednesday, the country with a population of 212 million recorded the second highest number of cases in the past 24 hours, 42,725 new cases, and a total of 1,188,631 have been infected since the beginning of the pandemic. Brazil is the second largest country in the world after the United States in terms of the number of infected and the number of deaths, with 1,185 deaths on Wednesday and 53,830 deaths since the outbreak. “The Brazilian curve is still on a strong rise,” said Domingos Alves , head of the Health Research Laboratory (LIS) at the University of Sao Paulo. The two worst-hit states, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (both in the country's southeast), say in the latest report that 284 and 142 people have died in COVID 19 in the past 24 hours, respectively. Sao Paulo set a daily death toll of 434 on Tuesday. Late last week, the curves seemed to have reached a plateau in those two states where local authorities began slowly easing epidemiological measures in early June. Prior to that, only pharmacies and food stores operated for two months, but there were no measures to force residents to stay at home. Schools are still closed, restaurants sell meals outside, but shopping malls have been open for two weeks. Domingos Alves thinks that the shops are too early to open because the WHO recommends that the measures start to be relaxed only when the number of deaths and illnesses falls for several weeks in a row. “We’re sending people to the slaughterhouse,” he warned. In the south of the country the situation worsens with the arrival of winter. In Curitiba, the capital of the state of Paraná, authorities warn that the health care system could suffocate if citizens do not respect epidemiological measures. The situation, on the other hand, is somewhat better in Manaus, in the north, in the state of Amazonas, where there was chaos in May when the dead were buried in mass graves, and in front of hospitals stood cold stores where bodies were kept until burial. A Polish hospital opened in Manaus closed this week. The state of Amazonas had 24 new cases of infection on Wednesday, and only eight the day before.