BBCNEWS BBC News May 18, 2020
Brazils coronavirus death toll has risen to more than 16,000, with more than 240,000 cases, making it the fourth worst affected country in terms of confirmed infections. On sunday, the mayor of brazils biggest city sao paulo warned the Health System was close to collapse. Earlier we spoke to doctor Marcelo Kalichsztein whos working on coronavirus intensive care wards in rio, and asked him how brazil is coping with the rapid rise in cases. We know that social distancing is important to secure our Health System against the effect of the coronavirus in hospital admission. But brazil is a very poo...