Brazil Posts Record Daily Virus Cases as Disease Spreads Inland

[denem]

Source: Bloomberg

Brazil reported a record number of daily cases from coronavirus as the pandemic continues to rage across Latin America’s largest nation.

The country, which trails only the U.S. in cases and deaths, reported 34,918 new cases, bringing the number of infections to 923,189. The data compiled by Brazilian states also showed 1,282 new fatalities, pushing the total toll to 45,241.

The pandemic shows no signs of wavering as cases that were concentrated in capitals and the Southeast have spread inland and to poorer regions of the country of 210 million people. At the same time, several states and cities have started to lift quarantine orders in the past few weeks, sparking concern about a new wave of infections. Estimates from PUC University in Rio de Janeiro show cases will likely surpass 1.3 million by late June, with more than 60,000 deaths.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-16/brazil-has-record-daily-coronavirus-cases-as-disease-spreads

[TomCADem]

1. "The country, which trails only the U.S. in cases and deaths..."

This is the most damning statement of the article. It is no coincidence.

https://www.businessinsider.com/brazils-bolsonaro-mirrors-trump-playbook-for-coronavirus-response-2020-5

Brazilian President Bolsonaro's response mirrors the Trump playbook from praising protesters to touting unproven remedies — and the death toll is mounting

Brazil has emerged as a coronavirus hotspot, and President Jair Bolsonaro seems to be taking a page out of US President's Donald Trump's playbook to tackle the growing number of cases.

Over the past several days the country's daily spikes of cases have grown. On Tuesday, the country recorded 1,179 fatalities. On Wednesday, Brazil has the largest spike of cases in 24 hours with close to 20,000 cases, about a fifth of the overall record 106,000 new global cases the World Health Organization recorded. The country holds the third-highest number of cases behind the US and Russia, with over 310,000 infections and more than 20,000 deaths.

Vox reported that Bolsonaro mishandled the outbreak from the start by "continuously downplaying the seriousness of the virus, vocally opposed state governors' decisions to impose lockdown measures, personally attended anti-lockdown protests, and pushed for businesses to reopen despite the growing outbreak."

In the US, Trump has repeatedly pushed for reopening the country despite expert opinions that doing so would cause a resurgence of cases and ultimately lead to needless death, in the country that already has over 1.5 million infections and over 94,700 deaths.

[Initech]

2. Brazil - Russia - US: The Axis Of Virus Stupidity

[Blues Heron]

3. right wingers are plain fucking stupid

in this case stupid is deadly. They don't care about their people though. They're like Saddam- killing their own people.