Why Brazilians Need to Take Charge of the Covid Crisis – podcast | New

Rachel Humphreys speaks with Guardian correspondent for Latin America, Tom phillips, on the Covid crisis in Brazil. An outbreak of infections linked to a seemingly more contagious new variant has engulfed hospitals in Amazonas state, leaving many without even the most basic supplies. The circumstances were so grim that oxygen tankers were rushed over the border of the economically collapsed neighboring Venezuela, with its leader, Nicolás Maduro, decrying what he called “the health disaster. audience of Jair Bolsonaro ”.

Tom tells Rachel how the public reacted to Bolsonaro and his government’s handling of this latest wave of infections. The inoculation began last Sunday, weeks after other Latin American countries like Chile and Mexico. But Brazil, which has 212 million citizens, has so far obtained just 6 million doses of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine and 2 million of the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine.

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