Brazil's coronavirus death toll surpassed 80,000 Monday, according to health ministry figures, as the country hit second-hardest in the world ...
Graves in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Brazil - the country has now registered over 80,000 coronavirus deaths. RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil's coronavirus death toll surpassed 80,000 on Monday , according to health ministry figures, as the country hit second-hardest in the world continued struggling to control the pandemic.
The far-right leader is currently in quarantine, along with several infected members of his cabinet. But he previously defied state authorities' stay-at-home measures, whose economic impact he argues could be more damaging than the virus itself. Like US President Donald Trump, whom he admires, Bolsonaro, 65, touts the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as promising treatments, and is taking the latter himself, despite a lack of evidence of their effectiveness against COVID-19.
There is"an opportunity here now for Brazil... to suppress the transmission of the virus," said WHO health emergencies chief Michael Ryan, urging the country to"take control."On average, Brazil has registered more than 1,040 new deaths and 33,000 new infections a day over the past week.
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