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More than 300,000 dead from corona in Brazil: "No light is seen at the end of the tunnel"
The country has become the focus of the global epidemic, in light of Bolsonaro's refusal to impose restrictions, a cumbersome vaccination campaign and a contagious variant that is spreading rapidly.
With a rate of 3,000 deaths a day, health authorities are collapsing.
"This is the most serious genocide in our history," former President Lola attacked
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Sunday, 28 March 2021, 11:35 Updated: 11:48
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The daily death toll from the Corona virus in Brazil continues to break records, and yesterday (Friday) 3,650 new cases were recorded in the largest country in Latin America.
More than 300,000 people have perished since the outbreak of the plague in Brazil, with mortality rates just lower than those in the United States, where the morbidity rate has already slowed.
Brazil is now the global focus of the epidemic due to the lack of federal restrictions, a contagious variant of the virus and performs cumbersome vaccinations.
Following the outbreak of the disease, pressure is mounting on President Jair Bolsonaro, who has downplayed its severity.
The far-right president refused to wear masks, opposed the imposition of closures and cast doubt on vaccines, but he began to change the tone in relation to them.
Yesterday, health authorities unveiled two local vaccines that are under development, and the state hopes that if approved in the coming months they will help curb the epidemic that led to the collapse of the country’s hospitals.
More than 12 million Brazilians have been infected with the virus, and in many of the hospitals the intensive care units are almost full, with a shortage of respirators.
Authorities described it as the worst health crisis in Brazil's history.
"We have never seen the failure of a health care system of such intensity," said Ana de Lamos, executive director of the Médecins Sans Frontières organization in Brazil.
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Bolsonaro, who himself fell ill in Corona and this month appointed the fourth health minister since the crisis began, has lost some of his popularity in recent months in light of his continued contempt for the plague.
He even recently called on citizens to "stop crying" and get used to living alongside the disease, which in his eyes is less severe than the economic damage that accompanies all the restrictions that are supposed to fight it.
His government refused to order the wearing of masks or to keep his distance, and the president even held large rallies with his supporters while ignoring the health hazard.
"This is the greatest genocide in our history," said former Brazilian President Luis Lola Insicio de Silva, after the dismal landmark.
Lola, who is likely to run in next year's election after his convictions were overturned by the court this month, said Bolsonaro lied to citizens.
"We must save Brazil from the corona," the left-wing leader said in an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel.
"Brazil will not survive if this person continues to control this form," Lola continued in his attack on Bolsonaro, calling on him to apologize to the families of the victims.
(Photo: AP)
Bolsonaro is also facing growing calls to replace his foreign minister, Anaresto Araujo, due to the government's inability to secure a stockpile of vaccines.
Senate President Rodrigo Pachao said on Thursday that Brazil's foreign policy must be improved, adding that Bolsonaro is the one to decide whether to replace his foreign minister.
Sources close to the president said Bolsonaro would prefer not to lose his secretary of state, who was an ardent supporter of former US President Donald Trump but is having a hard time forging a close relationship with Joe Biden's new administration.
However, officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Araujo's position was not strong.
One of them said Bolsonaro would most likely fire him eventually.
The president, who last year wondered what the "pressure" was to buy vaccines and gave up Pfizer's offer to buy tens of millions of vaccines, promised to speed up the pace of immunization.
He set a goal of one million servings a day, compared to an average of 350,000 per day in the past week.
"The government first addressed the threat of the epidemic in a dismissal, then the need for protective measures, then went out against science while encouraging miracle cures," said Natalia Pasternak, a microbiology expert from Sao Paulo.
"It confuses the citizens, it means people feel safe walking the streets."
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