Emergency workers transfer a Covid-19 patient to a hospital in Manaus last month.
Brazil clearly has hotspots in heavily-populated cities, he said, but overall its health system is coping with the world’s second-worst number of infections. Brazil’s Health Ministry has reported more than 1,200 deaths a day since Tuesday, a mounting toll as the country moves to ease quarantine restrictions and reopen businesses, a move called for by President Jair Bolsonaro.
Brazilian shoppers lined up for hours and crowded into malls that reopened on Thursday in the country’s two largest cities. Shoppers continued to crowd malls on Friday, Brazil’s equivalent to Valentine’s Day.
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