Brazil lacks coronavirus tests, other equipment, report says

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Brazilian health officials grappling with the new coronavirus outbreak have issued a stark warning about a lack of hospital beds, masks, testing devices and trained staff across Latin America's largest nation.

outbreak have issued a stark warning about a lack of hospital beds, masks, testing devices and trained staff across Latin America's largest nation.

As of Saturday afternoon, the health ministry had reported 10,278 confirmed cases and 431 deaths. But the outbreak is still in its early phase, the report said, and the country's hospitals are not ready to handle a peak. Authorities are seeking partnerships between the public and private sectors to address shortages in testing capacities, but such agreements would not bear fruit for at lest another two weeks they said.

Bolsonaro has increasingly isolated himself politically by maintaining that jobs and the economy must prevail and that Brazil ”cannot stop.”

 

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They are starting into fall then winter down there. The seasonal flue season. Worst thing for them. USA teams with Brazil, Germany, GB, France, Italy, Spain.....to destroy the Chinese Communist and set the people of China free.

enzoenoque

Hope they aren’t as fucked, as we are here in the United States.

写真はRua Teodoro Sampaio 懐かしい。

So Brazilian Governments is not ready to handle the outbreaks. Take South Korea as a example with their gold standard program and ask help from China for your medical devices

It’s Brazil, sorry. In America, we’re first in line for our American taxpayer $.

realdonaldtrump EVER DRIVEN A TOYOTA PAST 200,000 miles? rhetorical.

If this thing gets rolling in Mexico and S America look out 😞

uh so does the whole world! TOYOTA COULD HELP! but who wants to listen to that COMPANY'S COMPETENCY! I ALREADY CALLED ON trump to ask JAPAN for help. Instead we get the old us companies who have been dying for years because we haven't invested in them and put forth innovation.

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