NSTworld: Brazil's Health Ministry’s latest figures gave a toll of 19,638 confirmed Covid-19 cases, with 1,056 deaths.
The ministry’s latest figures gave a toll of 19,638 confirmed Covid-19 cases, with 1,056 deaths – one fewer than it had indicated in an initial tally earlier in the day.
There are fears for what that could mean in the country’s poorest areas, especially the favelas – crowded, impoverished slums in cities such as Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro that typically lack basic health and sanitation infrastructure. But experts warn the real number of cases is probably much higher, given limited testing capacity and a large backlog of samples.
Indigenous peoples in the Amazon rainforest have historically been hit hard by diseases that are commonplace among other societies as their isolation has shielded them from germs against which much of the world has developed immunity.
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