{"id":91836,"date":"2020-09-12T11:57:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T03:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=91836"},"modified":"2020-09-12T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T03:57:04","slug":"covid-19-brazil-virus-death-toll-passes-130000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=91836","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Brazil virus death toll passes 130,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil\u2019s death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 130,000 Friday, amid cautious optimism over signs the virus is
finally slowing in the hard-hit South American country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the second-highest death toll in the pandemic after the United
States, Brazil has been devastated by the new coronavirus, which has now
claimed 130,396 lives in the country, according to the health ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazil, home to 212 million people, has registered nearly 4.3 million
infections, behind only the US and India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a seemingly endless plateau in which the number of daily deaths was
regularly over 1,000 from June to August, Brazil\u2019s curve appears to be
descending at last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The average number of deaths per day for the past week was 696.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe models indicate we are past the peak\u2026 and starting a descent,
albeit with levels that are still unacceptably high,\u201d immunologist Guilherme
Werneck told a seminar this week organized by Brazil\u2019s leading public health research institute, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro faces criticism for his handling of the
virus, which he has downplayed as a \u201clittle flu.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now on his third health minister of the crisis \u2014 an army general with no
prior medical experience \u2014 the far-right president regularly attacks the
stay-at-home measures recommended by global health authorities, insisting the economic damage would be worse than the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, he is pushing the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a
remedy, despite studies showing it is ineffective against Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the virus has proved devastating for some of Brazil\u2019s most
vulnerable groups, notably residents of impoverished favelas, or slums, and
indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fear now is that as the country emerges from lockdowns \u2014 which only
had limited compliance to begin with \u2014 the number of infections and deaths will surge again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo tell you the truth, the first wave still isn\u2019t over in Brazil,\u201d the
epidemiological modelling specialist Thomas Mellan of Imperial College London told the Fiocruz seminar. — NNN-AGENCIES
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil\u2019s death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 130,000 Friday, amid cautious optimism over signs the virus isfinally slowing in the hard-hit South American country. With the second-highest death toll in the pandemic after the UnitedStates, Brazil has been devastated by the new coronavirus, which has nowclaimed 130,396 lives in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":91837,"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\/91836"}],"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=91836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}