Brazil surpasses 2 million coronavirus cases: Official
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil on Thursday passed the 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases mark, with little sign that the rate of increase is slowing as anger grows over President Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the outbreak.
By contrast, 43 days passed between 1 million and 2 million confirmed cases in the United States, where the spread of Covid-19 eased briefly in May before accelerating again in June, according to a Reuters tally.Brazil, the largest country in Latin America, is home to around 210 million people – roughly two-thirds the size of the US population.
Despite the rapid spread of the virus, Mr Bolsonaro, a far-right former army captain, has pressured local governments to lift lockdown restrictions. "The government didn’t budge despite the health crisis. They thought more about money than about people," said Mr Rafael Reis of Rio de Janeiro, who lost his 71-year-old mother to the illness.In some big cities such as Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, where the outbreak first emerged in Brazil, new daily cases have stabilised and even begun to decline slowly.
He said models show the next million cases in Brazil may come more slowly, as there are now fewer untouched corners of the country.
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