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UPDATED: April 12, 2021 00:39 IST
Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) workers move a Covid-19 patient to an ambulance in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, (AP Photo)
April is shaping up to be Brazil’s darkest month yet in the pandemic, with hospitals struggling with a crush of patients, deaths on track for record highs and few signs of a reprieve from a troubled vaccination program in Latin America’s largest nation.
The Health Ministry has cut its outlook for vaccine supplies in April three times already, to half their initial level, and the country’s two biggest laboratories are facing supply constraints.
Brazil s pandemic outlook darkens amid vaccine supply snags Associated Press
April is shaping up to be Brazil s darkest month yet in the pandemic, with hospitals struggling with a crush of patients, deaths on track for record highs and few signs of a reprieve from a troubled vaccination program in Latin America s largest nation.
The Health Ministry has cut its outlook for vaccine supplies in April three times already, to half their initial level, and the country s two biggest laboratories are facing supply constraints.
The delays also mean tens of thousands of more deaths as the particularly contagious P.1 variant of Covid-19 sweeps Brazil. It has recorded about 350,000 of the 2.9 million virus deaths worldwide, behind only the U.S. toll of over 560,000.
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