Nurses have been hit particularly hard as Brazil has rocketed up the global charts to claim an unwanted third spot in the number of deaths, behind the United States and Britain.
OVERWORKED. Health professionals check a patient infected with COVID-19 at the Intensive Care Unit of the Doctor Ernesto Che Guevara Public Hospital in Marica, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on June 6, 2020. Photo by Mauro Pimentel/AFP
In Brazil, which accounts for well over half of the deaths in the region, hospitals were struggling to cope with the influx of sick and dying. Around 18,000 nurses there have been infected with COVID-19, and at least 181 have died – among the highest numbers in the world, according to the International Council of Nurses.
On Wednesday, June 10, and with infection rates still soaring, the economic capital Sao Paulo began reopening shops. By the end of next year, the loss of income should surpass that of"any previous recession over the last 100 years outside wartime," the forecast warned.
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