Brazil was on track to surpass 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Friday, second only to the United States, with total deaths fast ...
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil on Friday passed a total of more than 1 million COVID-19 cases, and nearly 50,000 deaths, according to Health Ministry data, in a new nadir for the world's second worst-hit country.
"That number of 1 million is much less than the real number of people who have been infected, because there is under-reporting of a magnitude of five to ten times," said Alexandre Naime Barbosa, a medical professor at the São Paulo State University."The true number is probably at least 3 million and could even be as high as 10 million people.
Bolsonaro has shunned social distancing, calling it a job-killing measure that was more dangerous than the virus itself. He has promoted two anti-malarial drugs as remedies, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, despite little evidence they work.
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