GENEVA/BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll overtook Britain’s on Friday to end up being the 2nd greatest worldwide with 41,828 dead, however the World Health Company stated the country’s health system was standing up to the pressure.
A guy walks beside a graffiti depciting a cleaner wearing protective equipment spraying viruses with the face of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 12,2020 REUTERS/Sergio Moraes
” The system as such from the information we see is not overwhelmed,” the WHO’s leading emergencies skilled Dr. Mike Ryan said, with few locations of Brazil using more than 80%of their healthcare facilities’ extensive care bed capacity.
Brazil clearly has hotspots in heavily-populated cities, he said, but overall its health system is coping with the world’s second worst number of infections.
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