While COVID-19 is raging across Brazil, the country’s regions are taking matters into their own hands, says Brazilian scholar Gustavo Guerreiro, referring to nine northeast states who united their resources to fight against the pandemic. Following in the footsteps of Parana, Brazil’s northeast has signalled interest in Russia’s vaccine, he notes.
While the World Health Organisation’s recent announcement that the COVID-19 pandemic is stabilizing in Brazil offers some hope, the numbers of new confirmed cases and fatalities are still high. According to data from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre on Wednesday, the country has registered 3,669, 995 infections and 116,580 deaths with 1,271 coronavirus fatalities in just 24 hours on Tuesday.
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