The health ministry said in a report earlier this month that it has the capacity to test 6,700 people per day — a far cry from the roughly 40,000 it will need when the virus peaks.“We should do many more tests than we’re doing, but the laboratory here is working at full steam,” said Keny Colares, an infectious disease specialist at the Hospital Sao Jose in northeastern Ceara state who has been advising state officials on the pandemic response.
On Saturday, the city of Rio plans to open its first field hospital, with 200 beds, half reserved for intensive care. Another hospital erected beside the historic Maracana football stadium will offer 400 beds starting next month. Edenir Bessa, a 65-year-old retiree from Rio’s working-class Mangueira favela, sought medical attention on April 20; she was turned away from two full urgent care units before gaining admission to a third located 40 kilometers away. Hours later, she was transferred by ambulance almost all the way back to the Ronaldo Gazzola hospital, according to her son, Rodrigo Bessa. She died overnight, and he had to enter the hospital to identify her body.
to our frontliners/workers.would it be nice to apply our hair,face,neck,armpits,arms,fingers,private parts or all over our body with coconut base oil.scrub during shower with towelettes or sponge.dry and apply oil. it might do the trick to keep us from covid-19.