COVID: WHO warns Brazil’s mismanagement will affect entire region

The pandemic situation in Brazil is getting worse and worse and its president, Jair Bolsonaro, does not change the present of its population, strongly affected by the coronavirus. Faced with this, the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, He denounced the measures taken and the support since the onset of the disease. The new records of cases and deaths continue to worry and scare for the future.

On this issue, during a press conference in Geneva, the head of the organization was more than concerned: “If Brazil isn’t serious, it will continue to affect the whole region and more.” While, following the same line, the executive director of the WHO emergency program, Mike Ryan, added: “Now is not the time for Brazil or anyone to relax.” Globally, cases were down more than six weeks ago but everything has changed and they call for continued health measures to prevent the circulation of the virus.

On this subject and in light of the different vaccination campaigns in different countries of the world, he warned: “The arrival of vaccines is a time of great hope but also a time when we potentially lose our focus.”. For this reason, they point out that individuals continue to keep their distance, use chin straps and wash their hands, using alcohol gel and disinfectants to prevent transmission.

Especially Brazil is in one of the worst times of the pandemic, break all possible records for confirmed cases and dead people. In Wednesday’s report, 1,910 deaths were recorded – the highest number since March – and exceeded 260,000 deaths. It is only behind the United States and has the third highest number of reported positive cases: nearly 10.8 million.

As if that wasn’t enough, several Brazilian states collapsed before the second wave of COVID-19 and had to transfer critically ill patients to other regions. The variant of the Amazon, more and more contagious – three times more – worries many but the government does not plan to put in place any type of national restriction. During, Bolsonaro phrasing: “As far as it depends on me, we will never have Lockdowon (total closure) “.