The novel coronavirus death toll in Brazil surpassed 20,000 on Thursday, after a record number of fatalities in a 24-hour period, the health ministry said.
South America has become “a new epicentre” of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Friday, following a surge in the number of Covid-19 infections.
“Clearly there is a concern across many of those countries, but clearly the most affected is Brazil at this point.”Brazil has now recorded more than 310,000 cases, with experts saying a lack of testing means the real figures are probably much higher. The death toll — the sixth-highest in the world — has doubled in just 11 days, according to ministry data.“But in terms of attack rates, the highest attack rates are actually in Amazonas: about 490 persons infected per 100,000 population, which is quite high,” he said of Brazil’s vast northwestern state.
Ryan stressed that neither hydroxychloroquine nor chloroquine have been proven to be effective in the treatment of Covid-19 — or in prophylaxis against the disease.
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