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“The Europeans are right to be afraid about what is happening in Brazil,” said Marcos Boulos, an infectious disease specialist from the University of São Paulo who said uncontrolled outbreaks such as Brazil’s provided the ideal breeding grounds for variants. “The more transmission there is, the more variants appear … The situation is very, very serious,” Boulos said. This week the British government added India – which is witnessing a ferocious surge in cas...

Brazil’s ‘rapid and violent’ Covid variant devastates Latin America Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Dan Collyns in Lima © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Michael Dantas/AFP/Getty Images As a coronavirus variant traced to the Brazilian Amazon marauded through Peru’s coastal capital last month, Rommel Heredia raced to his local hospital to seek help for his brother, mother and father. “I said goodbye and promised I’d come back to take them home,” said the ...

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro It was midway through February when André Machado realized Brazil’s coronavirus catastrophe was racing into a bewildering and remorseless new phase. “The floodgates opened and the water came gushing out,” recalled the infectious disease specialist from the Our Lady of the Conception hospital in Porto Alegre, one of the largest cities in southern Brazil. © Photograph: André Penner/AP Coronavirus patients in a field hospital set up inside a sports coliseum...

Covid is taking over: Brazil plunges into deadliest chapter of its epidemic Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: André Penner/AP It was midway through February when André Machado realized Brazil’s coronavirus catastrophe was racing into a bewildering and remorseless new phase. “The floodgates opened and the water came gushing out,” recalled the infectious disease specialist from the Our Lady of the Conception hospital in Porto Alegre, ...