Brazil’s death toll from COVID-19 surpassed a quarter-million Thursday, a year after the first case was confirmed in the country, which is struggling with vaccine shortages and a devastating second wave.
This has been the deadliest week yet of the pandemic in Brazil, with a daily average of 1,149 deaths over the past seven days, according to the ministry’s figures. It has hit especially hard in Brazilian cities’ impoverished “favelas,” among indigenous communities with vulnerable immune systems, and in the Amazon rainforest city of Manaus, where there have been haunting scenes of mass graves and patients suffocating to death with no oxygen.
Federal health regulator Anvisa this week approved the vaccine from US pharmaceutical firm Pfizer and German partner BioNTech for widespread use.Negotiations with Pfizer have stumbled over who would be held liable for any side effects, with vaccine-skeptic Bolsonaro warning the shot could “turn you into an alligator.”“It’s very sad. A lot of people are still dying,” said pensioner Dayse Pereira after getting vaccinated at a drive-through immunization clinic in the capital, Brasilia.
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