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Brazil, with almost 48,000 deaths from Covid-19 , will reach this million confirmed cases this week while reopening the economy in a hurry, in a disorderly and often contradictory de-escalation that according to specialists can bring serious consequences in the coming days. It would be a regrowth within the first outbreak, because in Brazil the curve never started to go down. The country has been running for three days straight, adding more than 1,200 deaths a day .
However, since the beginning of this month many cities began to relax the already lax restrictions imposed since March. São Paulo supported the decision in that the occupancy of beds in intensive care units had dropped to 70 percent. The specialists warned that this could not be the only criterion.
In Rio de Janeiro , the mayor Marcelo Crivella yielded to the pressure of the lobby of the shopping malls and brought forward its reopening in time for Valentine's Day purchases (in Brazil it is celebrated on June 12), which caused significant crowds. It also promoted the return of official soccer competitions . The first match, between Flamengo and Bangu, was held behind closed doors on Thursday at the Maracanã stadium, right next to a field hospital with patients still struggling to survive.
In spite of everything, there are some signs for optimism : in the most affected capitals so far, such as São Paulo and Rio, the level of infections is stabilizing, although the virus is now advancing within these regions. To the north, Manaus , the capital of Amazonas, which became famous for being the first to open mass graves in cemeteries due to the explosion of cases, closed one of its field hospitals this week.
Brazil is a country of continental size and the pandemic has different rhythms , authorities allege. The Achilles heel, according to specialists, is the lack of coordination by the central government. President Jair Bolsonaro has been practically referring to the pandemic for weeks , not even to downplay it , as he did so far.
Each state does what it sees fit, and in many cases it must be rectified. To the south, Curitiba reopened churches and even gyms, and quickly had to back down and return to the 'orange' phase, after the number of cases tripled in just a week. Precisely the southern regions, which until now had coped relatively well with the pandemic, are the most concerned now, with the arrival of winter, and with it, the season of respiratory diseases.
" There will be a confluence of the coronavirus cases with the flu, dengue and chikungunya cases . All endemics will converge. When this perfect storm occurs there will be a demand for ICU beds. It has already started. We are in it, but we are still it did not explode in the way it probably can, "said Miguel Nicolelis , medical coordinator of the scientific committee against Covid-19 of the Northeast Consortium , recently .
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