It is rather a good sign for the second most affected country in the world in number of cases identified. The epidemic of the new coronavirus has reached a "plateau" in Brazil, said the World Health Organization on Friday.
The reproduction rate of the virus, which measures the number of new people infected by each infected person, greater than 1.5 or 2 in April-May, is now between 0.5 and 1.5 in the different regions of Brazil, said WHO director of health emergencies Michael Ryan during a press conference.
Over 2 million contaminations
Brazil crossed the threshold of two million contaminations to the new coronavirus, the second highest death toll in the world after the United States, and is approaching 80,000 dead on Thursday.
The largest Latin American country has registered 45,403 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 2,012,151 infections, according to the Department of Health.
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“There is a tray. Brazil now has the opportunity to postpone the disease, suppress the transmission of the virus, take control "of the epidemic, said Michael Ryan.
It remains to convince President Bolsonaro, openly skeptical of the pandemic and opposed to protective measures against the virus. Confined himself, he expressed in turn his impatience in the face of a "horrible" deprivation of freedom of movement and his unshakable faith in hydroxychloroquine. He assured that he was "going well" thanks to the molecule whose effectiveness has not been scientifically proven to date.
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