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Failed COVID-19 response drives Brazil to humanitarian catastrophe Format After accounting for over a quarter of global COVID-19 deaths last week, Brazil does not have an effective plan in place to deal with the pandemic. The pandemic in the country has become politicised, and the government has not adopted science-based measures to try to bring it under control. MSF urges the Brazilian authorities to immediately convene a centralised and coordinated response to COVID-19. More than 12 months in...

A year into the pandemic, and after recording over a quarter of the world's COVID-19 deaths last week, Brazil's coronavirus response is spiralling out of control, resulting in avoidable deaths.

Surging in remote and poor areas, Brazils COVID-19 death toll is 2nd highest in the world Saša Petricic It was late at night and a chaotic crowd had gathered in front of a hospital in Manaus, the biggest city in Brazils vast Amazon and the last hope for medical care for tens of thousands of COVID-19 patients in the region.  Doctors shouted patients names, working their way down an impossibly long list while the sick and their families jostled through the jammed emergency en...

COVID-19 leaves Amazonas health system saturated, overloaded and struggling Format The health system in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, in northwestern Brazil, has collapsed for the second time. Although hospitals have been adding COVID-19 bed capacity at an astonishing rate, the numbers of new patients with the coronavirus have continued to grow even faster, meaning the entire health system is saturated and overloaded. More seriously, the citys capacity to produce oxygen is running at l...

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