translated from Spanish: Coronavirus: Brazil surpassed 1,000 deaths and almost 20,000 are infected

More than 166 countries have been fighting the threat of coronavirus in the world, which has already reported more than 100,000 deaths since the pandemic erupted. In this regard, Brazil recorded more than 1,000 deaths, and ranks as the most impacted country in Latin America by the virus. According to the Ministry of Health, they total 19,638 cases confirmed by COVID-19 and the number of fatalities amounts to 1,056. However, health authorities estimate that the peak contagion will occur at the end of April.

The expansion of the virus further violates the favelas of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, which do not have the health infrastructure needed to quell the pandemic. Sao Paulo is the most affected state, has 540 fatalities and 8,216 infected, while Rio de Janeiro reported 147 and 2,464, respectively. On Friday, the case of a 15-year-old boy, one of the last COVID-19 contagion deaths, went on friday. He is a young man of Yanomami Amazonian origin, the first of his ethnicity to be diagnosed. After being in the intensive care unit of the Boa Vista General Hospital (located in the capital of Roraima state in northern Brazil), he died.

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president in the face of pandemic crisis

This caused concern in the Amazonian tribes, who are daily violated, which leaves them helpless in the face of the advance of coronavirs and the diseases – from other territories – to which they were exposed. In Brazil, more than 800,000 people from indigenous peoples and more than 300 ethnic groups. Faced with the current number of deaths from the virus, President Jair Bolsonaro faced dozens of criticisms for underestimating the importance of prevention because it is a “small flu” and refusing quarantine not to “slow down the country’s economy.” In this note:

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