Brazil tops 4 million cases amid signs COVID-19 slowing

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil topped four million COVID-19 cases on Thursday as health ministry officials said infections were beginning to slow in the world's second worst-hit country.

Since the end of August, Brazil has averaged around 870 Covid-19 fatalities with 40,000 new infections a day."This is the beginning of what we hope is in fact an improving trend," said Mauricio Sanchez, an epidemiologist at Brasilia University. Brazil has recorded a death rate of 589 per million inhabitants but there is a huge difference between the figures in the north and the south

The experts warned the situation could suddenly worsen again if local and regional governments gave in to pressure from business groups to reopen the economy too soon and if social distancing measures were abandoned.FEARS OF LOST PROGRESS "The most vulnerable people cannot stay at home working in their home office," said Sanchez, who fears that the current signs of improvement will lead local governments and the general public to slacken off and that progress made in recent weeks will be lost.

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