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Brazil coronavirus death toll surges to third-highest in world


Member of Doctors Without Borders do paperwork after treating members of the Warao tribe, Venezuelas second-largest indigenous group, for symptoms of the novel coronavirus in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, on June 3, 2020. (Photo by AFP)

Brazils death toll from the new coronavirus has surpassed Italys making it the third-highest in the world while the UNs secretary-general has called for a "peoples vaccine" to stem the pandemic.

The bleak figures from Brazil underlined the grim toll the virus is taking on Latin America, the latest epicenter in the pandemic, even as Europe seeks to reemerge from lockdown, including with a massive new 600 billion euro ($674 billion) economic stimulus measure announced by the European Central Bank.

But on the medical side, the outlook remains blurry.

Even as researchers around the world race to develop and test vaccines, new - sometimes contradictory - information on the virus continues to emerge.

In the latest case, the medical journal The Lancet retracted a study that raised safety concerns regarding hydroxychloroquine, a drug touted by US President Donald Trump as a treatment for COVID-19, after the papers authors said they were no longer confident in the underlying data provided by a Chicago-based healthcare analytics firm.

The paper had led the World Health Organization to suspend clinical trials of the drug, and its retraction added fuel to a politically charged debate over how to respond to the pandemic.

Brazil, Mexico hit records

Since emerging in China late last year, the virus has infected at least 6.6 million people, killed more than 390,000 and wreaked havoc on the global economy by forcing millions to stay inside their homes.

Brazil reported a new 24-hour record death toll, bringing the total number killed to more than 34,000.

Brazil has a lower record than both the United States, with more than 108,000 deaths, and Britain, with nearly 40,000.

Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has fiercely criticized coronavirus stay-at-home measures, even as the number of infections and deaths continues to soar, arguing that they are needlessly hurting the economy.

Brazil is the hardest-hit country in Latin America, though the toll is also rising sharply in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador and Chile.

Mexico reported a record number of new infections for the second straight day, with 4,442.

And in Peru, desperate residents lined up to buy oxygen tanks for their loved ones, as the government declared oxygen a "strategic health resource" amid an acute shortage.

Global public good

With the pandemic starting to hit the developing world with full force, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said a new vaccine had to be available to everyone across the world.

"A vaccine must be seen as a global public good, a peoples vaccine, which a growing number of world leaders are calling for," he said in a message to a virtual summit hosted by Britain that aims to raise funds for Gavi, the global vaccine alliance.

The talks brought together more than 50 countries and individuals such as billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.

Governments around the world pledged $8.8 billion for Gavis work.

Huge EU stimulus

Europe meanwhile continued its tentative return from lockdown, hoping to restart its stalled economies without sparking a second wave of infections.

Looking to give the pummeled euro zone economies a massive boost, the European Central Bank added €600 billion to its emergency bond-buying scheme.

The program, which will maintain access to much-needed credit for companies, households and governments, now totals some €1.35 trillion, on a par with the record emergency spending under way in the United States.

Governments are especially keen to save what they can of the summer tourism season and, after easing national lockdowns, were reopening borders this week.

Italy welcomed back travelers from elsewhere in Europe on Wednesday, while Austria scrapped entry checks at its borders from Thursday, except for the one with Italy.

The sporting world meanwhile continued trying to chart a course back to action, with the NBA becoming the latest league to adopt a return-to-play plan.

It paves the way for basketball to resume from July 31 at a single sports complex in sunny Orlando, Florida, without fans, after a three-month shutdown in the US.

Risk at US protests

The United States remains the hardest-hit nation in the world, and its economic losses continue to pile up.

With new jobless claims filed last week, the number of US workers laid off by the pandemic now exceeds 42 million, the Labor Department said.

And there are fears that the ongoing protests in the country against racism and police brutality could facilitate the spread of the virus due to non compliance with social distancing rules.

That has not stopped a new wave of protests, sometimes even including doctors and nurses who are actively fighting the pandemic.

"We took an oath to serve all communities, we took an oath to protect public health and right now excessive use of force and police brutality is a public health emergency," said emergency room doctor Kamini Doobay at a protest led by medical staff at the Bellevue Hospital in New York.

 


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