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   [105]CORONAVIRUS
   06/19/2020 09:41 am ET

The Worst Of The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Still To Come

   As the world's death toll closes in on half a million, cases in Brazil
   are still accelerating and infections in India may not peak until
   November.
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   By [107]Sasha Belenky

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   While coronavirus infection rates across much of Europe and parts of
   the United States have begun to fall, allowing people to [108]return to
   some semblance of normal life, the pandemic is continuing to accelerate
   in other regions of the world.

   “Although the situation in Europe is improving, globally it is
   worsening,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom
   Ghebreyesus said this month.

   The situation is particularly dire in Latin America, which has become
   [109]the new epicenter of the pandemic, and where scientists say the
   peak of infections is still weeks away.

   Nations that have managed to control the spread of the virus may have
   started to worry about [110]a second wave as they loosen lockdown
   restrictions. But in Latin America, the WHO has made it clear that the
   first phase of the pandemic is still going strong.

   The situation in Brazil is especially concerning, Pan American Health
   Organization Director Carissa Etienne said this week. The country has
   been one of the hardest-hit nations in the world, with [111]nearly 1
   million confirmed cases of coronavirus and nearly 50,000 deaths,
   according to researchers at [112]Johns Hopkins University, second only
   to the United States.

   As Latin America’s largest country, Brazil accounts for about a quarter
   of the 4 million coronavirus cases in the region, and about a quarter
   of the deaths — and the rate of infection is increasing.

   A recent analysis by the [113]COVID-19 Brazil group, an initiative
   bringing together scientists from Brazilian universities and research
   centers, and Johns Hopkins University, found that Brazil has [114]the
   highest growth rate of confirmed cases in the world.

   “We are the only country in the world where the number of cases and
   deaths is accelerating,” Domingos Alves, a member of the COVID-19
   Brazil group, [115]told HuffPost Brazil.

   “Brazil is the only one that is putting its foot on the accelerator.”
   Cemetery workers in protective suits shovel earth at the Vila Formosa
   cemetery in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo amid the co
   picture alliance via Getty Images Cemetery workers in protective suits
   shovel earth at the Vila Formosa cemetery in the Brazilian city of Sao
   Paulo amid the coronavirus pandemic.

   In São Paulo, Brazil’s largest metropolis, authorities [116]recently
   announced plans to dig up cemeteries and store the remains in large
   metal containers in order to make room for new coronavirus victims.

   Obtaining an accurate picture of the situation in Brazil has been
   challenging, however, due to the widespread underreporting of cases.
   The testing rate in the United States, for example, has been 37,188
   tests per 1 million inhabitants. In Brazil, the rate has been just
   8,737 per million inhabitants.

   Moreover, the Brazilian government has been accused of trying to
   [117]mask the deadly impact of the pandemic after the health ministry
   [118]removed months of data from a website that had been tracking
   COVID-19 earlier this month.

   Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has long played down the dangers of
   the pandemic, replaced medical experts in the health ministry with
   military officials and argued against state lockdowns to fight the
   virus, hobbling the country’s public health response.

   Other countries have moved to lift lockdown restrictions even as the
   number of coronavirus cases continues to rise.

   “We have to head toward the new normality, because the national economy
   and the well being of the people depends on it,” Mexican President
   Andrés Manuel López Obrador [119]said earlier this month.

   On Thursday, Mexico’s health ministry reported a record 5,662 new
   confirmed cases of coronavirus infections and 667 additional
   fatalities, bringing the country’s total to 165,455 cases and 19,747
   deaths. The government has said the real number of infected people is
   likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases.

   India, too, is continuing to loosen lockdown measures across the
   country, despite an escalating number of cases.

   On Thursday, the Indian health ministry reported [120]a record spike in
   the number of coronavirus cases, bringing the total to nearly 400,000.
   A worker paints beds to be used at a railway hospital in Chennai,
   India, to accommodate coronavirus patients, March 30.
   P. Ravikumar / Reuters A worker paints beds to be used at a railway
   hospital in Chennai, India, to accommodate coronavirus patients, March
   30.

   In New Delhi, hospitals have been running out of beds, and some
   patients have been turned away for lack of space.

   “On 1 June, we downloaded the report which said that our father-in-law
   was COVID positive. That’s when our ordeal began,” Mandeep Singh
   [121]wrote in HuffPost India.

   “Though they had promised, Ganga Ram Hospital did not contact us. When
   we tried calling them to figure what we should do next, no one answered
   those calls.

   “Frustrated, we started reaching out to the other hospitals we knew
   were admitting COVID patients. We called Max, Apollo, AIIMS, Safdurjung
   — all the hospitals directed us not to come as they did not have beds.”

   Patients have been left unattended in corridors of government-run
   hospitals. Local media reports of dead bodies in a hospital lobby
   prompted the Supreme Court to order the state administration to get its
   act together.

   On Sunday, the federal government said it will provide New Delhi’s city
   authorities with 500 railway coaches that will be equipped to care for
   coronavirus patients, in order to address the shortage of hospital
   beds.

   A study released this week suggested that the peak of the outbreak
   could come in November, and that India was [122]likely to experience a
   shortage of ventilators and ICU beds.

   “I don’t think we expected that cases would rise this much,” a lawmaker
   of the Aam Aadmi party that runs the capital [123]told Reuters. “We
   were so over-confident.”

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