03/22/2021 8:51 PM
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Updated 03/22/2021 8:51 PM
Brazil surpassed
295,000 deaths on
Monday
and 12 million cases
of coronavirus since the pandemic began.
The situation in the country headed by Jair Bolsonaro worsens day by day, hospitals collapse due to the increase in cases and the shortage of drugs to intubate patients.
In this context, this Monday Rio de Janeiro decided to
close schools for 10 days starting Friday.
According to the National Council of Health Secretaries (CONAS), the country registered in the last 24 hours a total of
49,293 new confirmed cases and 1,383 deaths
from the virus, although the authorities acknowledge that the figures tend to be lower on weekends and Monday due to lack of staff to account for the data.
In this way, the total number of infections in the country amounts to
12,047,526
, while the number of deaths already
amounts
to
295,425
in just over a year of the pandemic.
Brazil, the second country with the most deaths and cases of covid-19 in absolute numbers after the United States, is going through a second wave much more deadly than the first and specialists warn that
the worst is yet to come.
The critical situation of the hospitals forced the authorities in different regions of the country to adopt measures to
restrict mobility
to try to contain the spread of the virus and reduce the pressure on the health system, where the Government has admitted that medicines for intubation of patients.
The city of Rio de Janeiro and neighboring Niteroi announced on Monday new measures to contain the advance of covid-19, which involve
closing schools, universities, shopping centers, bars, restaurants, museums, libraries and gyms,
for ten days to starting next Friday, in a decision similar to the one adopted by the Sao Paulo Mayor's Office.
According to data from the municipal health secretary, the percentage of occupancy in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) of Rio hospitals is
96%
.
However, Bolsonaro insisted on Monday that the policy of confinements to stop the advance of covid-19 "
makes the poor poorer
" and also kills, since it leads many people "
to depression and suicide
."
"They call me a denialist," but "
they don't let people work,
" he said in a new criticism of the partial confinements that governors and mayors have decreed in recent weeks, against whom the government has filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court.
Source: EFE.
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