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For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brazil has recorded more than 4,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day, a new grim milestone for the country as President Jair Bolsonaro continues to reject public health restrictions.
The Brazilian health ministry said on Tuesday that 4,195 people had died due to the virus.
The country has now recorded more than 366,000 deaths, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally – second only to the United States.
“It’s a nuclear reactor that has set off a chain reaction and is out of control. It’s a biological Fukushima,” Dr Miguel Nicolelis, a Brazilian medic and professor at Duke University, told the Reuters news agency.
BrazilRio-de-janeiroEstado-do-rioUnited-statesEspirito-santoEstado-de-pernambucoBraziliansBrazilianPaulo-emilio-ribasEthel-macielJamal-suleimanMiguel-nicolelisSao Paulo, Brazil – Brazil has become a byword for COVID-19 mismanagement, but one city is being championed as a model of how to tackle the coronavirus.
Araraquara, an industrial city of 240,000 people in Sao Paulo state, 270km (168 miles) from the administrative capital of the same name, implemented a 10-day lockdown in February, including closing supermarkets and public transport, aggressively tested citizens and detected the presence of the more infectious P1 variant early.
The result: a dramatic drop in infections, hospitalisations and deaths.
“It’s undeniable that lockdown is a bitter measure and difficult to take, but it gives results,” Mayor Edinho Silva told Al Jazeera in a telephone interview.
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