Brazil’s Covid-19 deaths surge past UK, but WHO says hospital system coping

Brazil’s Covid-19 death toll overtook Britain’s on Friday to become the second highest in the world with 41,828 dead, but the World Health Organisation said the nation’s health system was standing up to the pressure.“The system as such from the data we see is not overwhelmed,” said top WHO emergencies expert Dr Mike Ryan. He added that few areas of Brazil are using more than 80 per cent of their hospitals’ intensive care bed capacity.Brazil clearly has hotspots in heavily-populated cities, he…

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