{"id":120930,"date":"2021-05-02T08:52:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T00:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120930"},"modified":"2021-05-02T08:52:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T00:52:28","slug":"covid-19-brazil-hits-82000-deaths-in-april-new-monthly-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120930","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Brazil hits 82,000 deaths in April, new monthly record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3982b157c31aae5354df965ecb1d000c13b9685b.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3982b157c31aae5354df965ecb1d000c13b9685b-696x392.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BRASILIA, May 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Brazil registered 2,595 new deaths from Covid-19 on Friday, bringing the total for April to 82,266, the second consecutive monthly record as the country struggles with a devastating surge since the start of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to figures from the Ministry of Health, 66,573 fatalities were recorded in March \u2014 underlining the steep increase in deaths over recent weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 212 million people, Brazil\u2019s death toll in the pandemic surpassed 400,000 on Thursday and it also has one of the highest mortality rates at 189 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country is scrambling to secure more vaccines and the Senate is investigating whether President Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s government has exacerbated the crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospitals have been pushed to the brink of collapse in many areas, although experts say the peak of the new wave appears to have passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts blame the latest surge partly on the Brazil variant of the virus, a mutation that emerged in or around the Amazon rainforest city of Manaus in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known as P1, it can reinfect people who have had the original strain of the virus, and may be more contagious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 29 million people in Brazil have received a first Covid-19 vaccine dose, over 13 percent of the population. About 13 million have received a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But cities in 14 of Brazil\u2019s 27 states have had to suspend second doses because of shortages, according to TV Globo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolsonaro has controversially downplayed the virus, fought stay-at-home measures to contain it and rejected some offers of vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The far-right president has defended his handling of the pandemic, telling supporters: \u201cI was wrong about nothing.\u201d &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRASILIA, May 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Brazil registered 2,595 new deaths from Covid-19 on Friday, bringing the total for April to 82,266, the second consecutive monthly record as the country struggles with a devastating surge since the start of the year. According to figures from the Ministry of Health, 66,573 fatalities were recorded in March \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":120932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}