Brazil set to pass half a million COVID-19 deaths

FILE PHOTO: Gravediggers wearing protective suits carry a coffin as spotlights illuminate the graves during a night burial at Vila Formosa cemetery, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, in Sao Paulo, Brazil April 28, 2021. Picture taken April 28, 2021.

PAHO warned that Colombia's COVID-19 situation is at its worst point yet, with intensive care unit beds filled in major cities.Advertisement"I think we are going to reach 700,000 or 800,000 deaths before we get to see the effects of vaccination," said Gonzalo Vecina, former head of Brazilian health regulator Anvisa, predicting a near-term acceleration in fatalities.

Raphael Guimaraes, a researcher at Brazilian biomedical center Fiocruz, said that delays in the vaccination program in Latin America's most populous nation meant its full effects would not be felt until September or later.Guimaraes warned that Brazil could revisit scenes from the worst of its March-April peak, when the country averaged 3,000 deaths per day.

Vaccination will be crucial in beating the virus in Brazil, since the country has failed to reach a consensus on social distancing and masks, said Ester Sabino, an epidemiologist at the University of Sao Paulo.However, evidence from neighboring Chile, which like Brazil has relied overwhelming on a vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech, suggests it may be months before mass immunization will effectively curb transmission.

Can we just reflect on this figure for a moment 500,000 families in Brazil have lost a loved one. And they have probably not been able to farewell them properly or mourn with family. This is tragic

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