Brazil Surpasses One Million COVID-19 Cases

Brazil Surpasses One Million COVID-19 Cases

Doctors of the Brazilian Armed Forces check an indigenous child of the Mayoruna ethnic group, in the Cruzeirinho village, near Palmeiras do Javari, Amazonas state, northern Brazil, on June 18, 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. EVARISTO SA / AFPBrazil passed the bleak milestone of one million coronavirus cases Friday, reporting a new one-day record number of infections as the pandemic continues to surge in Latin America’s largest country.

That brought the total number of infections in Brazil to 1,032,913, with 48,954 deaths — second only to the United States worldwide.Despite the grim figures, the infection curve in Brazil is finally showing signs of flattening.Since the start of June, it has registered the most new infections and deaths of any country in the world, according to an AFP count based on official figures — more than 518,000 and 19,000, respectively.Brazil has struggled to set a strategy for dealing with the pandemic.

The far-right leader argues the economic impact of such measures risks being worse than the virus itself, and has instead pushed his health ministry to recommend chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as treatments, despite uncertainty about the anti-malaria drugs’ effectiveness against COVID-19. The health minister he fired in April, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, told AFP Brazilians have suffered because of mixed messages from the government.

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