Brazil's easing of Covid-19 controls will cause new surge, experts warn | Malay Mail

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RIO DE JANEIRO, May 15 ― The corner bars are jammed once again with rambunctious crowds in Brazil's largest cities, but health experts warn that the easing of Covid-19 restrictions is premature and will deepen the world's second deadliest pandemic. “People think the pandemic is over ... but we...

Saturday, 15 May 2021 12:42 PM MYT

With no national policy coordination by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's government, and under pressure to get their economies running again, Brazilian governors and mayors have eased restrictions on non-essential activities.“In two or three months we will have an increase in deaths as a result of these measures. Hospitals are filling up and most patients die, unfortunately,” said Jesem Orellana, an epidemiologist at the Fiocruz biomedical centre.

Health experts are warning that Brazil has not learned from its mistake in easing restrictions last year that lead to this year's lethal surge. The approaching southern hemisphere winter, when respiratory diseases multiply, is expected to make matters worse. Fiocruz warned this week that social interaction, especially indoors with large numbers of people and little fresh air, must be avoided or else a new explosion of cases could be “catastrophic” in Brazil.

 

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