Brazil reports highest daily jump in virus cases
Brazil on Tuesday recorded it has the highest daily jump found in new coronavirus cases since the start of pandemic, with almost 35,000 registered found in 24 hours, medical ministry said.
The country, which has the second-highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths on the globe, after the United States, reported 34,918 new cases and 1,282 new deaths during the past 24 hours.
That brought Brazil's total caseload to more than 923,000, and its death toll to 45,241.
Experts say under-testing in the country of 212 million persons probably means the real figures are higher.
The grim fresh record came as the Community Health Organization's top official for the Americas again voiced concern over the problem in Brazil.
"Brazil possesses 23 percent of most cases and 21 percent of most deaths in our location. And we are not seeing transmission slowing," Carissa Etienne, director of the Pan American Health Organization, told a news conference.
Brazil features struggled to create a strategy for working with the virus.
President Jair Bolsonaro, who has famously compared the virus to a "little flu," features clashed with talk about and local authorities above their utilization of stay-at-home measures to contain it.
The far-best leader argues the economical impact of such measures risks being worse compared to the virus itself, and has instead touted the drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as treatments, despite uncertainty about their effectiveness against COVID-19.--AFP
