With death toll topping 365,000 Brazil faces humanitarian catastrophe”
This week, Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll topped the 365,000 mark amid an unprecedented surge of the pandemic. There were 21,000 deaths last week as the daily rolling average of cases and deaths increased by 0.9 percent and 1.1, respectively. Thursday registered more than 66,000 cases and 2,900 deaths. A new report by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) points to a tendency for the number of new cases to stabilize at such high rates. Meanwhile, 14 states plus the federal district registered an increase in the rolling average of deaths.
Vaccine arrives in Pernambuco. (Credit: Sérgio Bernardo/SEI/FotosPublicas)
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil had 39.8 million people with no internet connection by late 2019. The figure represents 21.7% of the population over the age of 10.
The figures are from the National Continuous Household Sample Survey (Pnad C), with a survey conducted in the 4th quarter of 2019, released on Wednesday (14) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
A year earlier, the number of Brazilians who did not have access to the World Wide Web was 45.9 million, which corresponded to 25.3% of the population aged 10 years or more.
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Hunger Haunts Millions in Brazil as Billionaires Roll in Cash Amid COVID Pandemic
The hunger index in Brazil has risen to its highest point since 2004. The number of people starving has doubled since 2018, the year Brazil elected far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro as president.
A member of a group of residents of Chapeu Mangueira, sprays alcohol on the hands of a homeless person as she delivers him food during the coronavirus outbreak at Copabacana beach at Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, April 11, 2020. Photo: Reuters
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Sao Paulo:Â Few comforting figures come out of Brazil these days. The numbers about daily infections and deaths caused by COVID-19 bring despair every evening. Data released last week shows how badly the country has been battered. But it is not about the damage done by the virus. It is about poverty and hunger.
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