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Brazil has been living its darkest hours for a few days since the appearance of the first case of Covid-19 a year ago.
With an Amazon variant of the virus practically out of control, the largest country in Latin America has become a health threat to the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.
Sign of the acceleration of the pandemic, the country deplored 1,455 daily deaths on average last week, an increase of 40% in two weeks.
Brazil has 265,000 lives lost due to the pandemic, the second most bereaved country in the world after the United States.
Worse, the next two weeks will be dramatic with more than 3,000 deaths per day, predicts the entourage of the Minister of Health quoted by the economic newspaper
Valor
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“It's the saddest month of our lives. We cannot be optimistic, we are going to have a really very difficult month of March
,
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worries pulmonologist and researcher at the Fiocruz Institute Margareth Dalcolmo.
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