Collapse in Brazil: the city of São Paulo joined …

The sanitary overflow by coronavirus in Brazil, fired by the Jair Bolsonaro government’s constant denial of the pandemic, has caused this in the city St.Paul patients will start to die for lack of beds. “We are in ruins,” lamented the mayor of the city, Bruno Covas.

It is the first death due to the lack of intensive care beds in the richest city in Brazil and the largest in South America. “Unfortunately a person in the city died of not being able to have a bed “Said Covas. Meanwhile, Bolsonaro insists on supporting anti-quarantine protests organized by his supporters, in social isolation and restrictive measures dictated by governors.

According to Covas, the intensive care system is busy in various parts of the city and the total percentage is 88%, lower than 91 in the state of São Paulo, which is in an emergency quarantine phase.

Although the first death from lack of beds occurred yesterday, local press reported that 88 people died in 24 municipalities of São Paulo from the same cause. Especially since the victims of the P1 variant of the virus, the Amazon strain, must be hospitalized and intubated in intensive care for longer.

In an interview with GloboNews, the mayor admitted the lack of a control structure for his own administration to order total isolation.

In this context, he announced that the holidays will be anticipated to allow a reduction in the movement of people in this city, which has 12 million inhabitants, 7 million cars and a metropolitan area that reaches 22 million people.

São Paulo is the city most affected by Covid-19. For this reason, the authorities suspended face-to-face classes until April 5.

Brazil is experiencing worst health crisis in history with 24 of 26 states and the Federal District of Brasilia in collapse, with over 80 percent average bed occupancy. The country has already achieved a daily weekly average of deaths of more than 2,000 people.