Protest of medical residents in Brazil, which accumulates 20,000 deaths from coronavirus

Brazil exceeds 20,000 deaths from coronavirus, with daily record By Jorge SVARTZMAN
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                              Rio de Janeiro, May 22, 2020 (AFP) – Brazil on Thursday exceeded 20,000 deaths from the new coronavirus, with a record of 1,188 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the official balance of the Ministry of Health. confirmed reaches 20,047, placing Brazil as the sixth country with the most deaths from covid-19. The South American giant is also the third in number of affected, with 310,087 cases (18,508 more than on Wednesday), behind the United States and Russia. However, the number of infections could be up to 15 times higher due to the difficulty of having accurate statistics due to the lack of tests, according to analysts. The pandemic is on the upward curve in Latin America and Brazil, which has the highest number of deaths in the region (57% of the total of 35,000 deaths) and where the balance of deceased doubled in just 11 days (exceeding 10,000 on May 10) .The crisis occurs in a context of strong political confusion, due to the disagreements between the majority of the governors, in favor of confinement measures, and the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who criticizes them due to their economic impact. The tensions were felt within the government, which in less than a month, and in the midst of a pandemic, he witnessed the fall of two health ministers. Currently General Eduardo Pazuello occupies the position on an interim basis, who could keep it.
          – Bolsonaro and governors seek truce –
          Bolsonaro and the governors sought a truce this Thursday during a teleconference. “Brazil needs to be united. The existence of a war, as it was said here, confronts us all with defeat. Let’s go in peace, President, let’s go for Brazil and Let’s go together “, declared the Governor of Sao Paulo, Joao Doria, who in previous days went so far as to say that the country was facing both the coronavirus and the” Bolsonarovirus “. Sao Paulo, the richest and most populous state in the country, concentrates more of a quarter of the dead (5,558), followed by Rio de Janeiro (3,412) .In these two states, intensive care units (ICUs) are on the verge of saturation, as in the northeastern states of Ceará (2,161 dead) and Pernambuco (1,925), as well as in the Amazon (north, 1,620 dead). Bolsonaro said for his part that the meeting with the governors was “a great victory for the Brazilian people.” This pleasant climate eased investors and the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange closed up 2 , 10%. Markets are worried about an aggravation, due to political tensions, of what is announced as the worst recession in the history of Brazil. The most optimistic forecasts for this year project a GDP contraction of around 5%, but some analysts do not rule out a collapse of more than 10%. Bolsonaro, however, is not willing to give the arm to twist in his preaching to in favor of a quick reopening of the economy, along the same lines as US President Dolnald Trump. In his live broadcast on Thursday, he considered that “the dread” of the disease could be more lethal than the coronavirus itself. “More people die than dread than the fact itself. Dread also kills, leads to stress, to fatigue, the person does not sleep well, is always worried, [pensando] ‘If that virus catches me, I’m going to die,’ he declared.js / jm / yow
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