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  06/19/2020 09:41 am ET

The Worst Of The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Still To Come

  As the world's death toll closes in on half a million, cases in Brazil
  are still accelerating and infections in India may not peak until
  November.
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  By [107]Sasha Belenky

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  While coronavirus infection rates across much of Europe and parts of
  the United States have begun to fall, allowing people to [108]return to
  some semblance of normal life, the pandemic is continuing to accelerate
  in other regions of the world.

  “Although the situation in Europe is improving, globally it is
  worsening,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom
  Ghebreyesus said this month.

  The situation is particularly dire in Latin America, which has become
  [109]the new epicenter of the pandemic, and where scientists say the
  peak of infections is still weeks away.

  Nations that have managed to control the spread of the virus may have
  started to worry about [110]a second wave as they loosen lockdown
  restrictions. But in Latin America, the WHO has made it clear that the
  first phase of the pandemic is still going strong.

  The situation in Brazil is especially concerning, Pan American Health
  Organization Director Carissa Etienne said this week. The country has
  been one of the hardest-hit nations in the world, with [111]nearly 1
  million confirmed cases of coronavirus and nearly 50,000 deaths,
  according to researchers at [112]Johns Hopkins University, second only
  to the United States.

  As Latin America’s largest country, Brazil accounts for about a quarter
  of the 4 million coronavirus cases in the region, and about a quarter
  of the deaths — and the rate of infection is increasing.

  A recent analysis by the [113]COVID-19 Brazil group, an initiative
  bringing together scientists from Brazilian universities and research
  centers, and Johns Hopkins University, found that Brazil has [114]the
  highest growth rate of confirmed cases in the world.

  “We are the only country in the world where the number of cases and
  deaths is accelerating,” Domingos Alves, a member of the COVID-19
  Brazil group, [115]told HuffPost Brazil.

  “Brazil is the only one that is putting its foot on the accelerator.”
  Cemetery workers in protective suits shovel earth at the Vila Formosa
  cemetery in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo amid the co
  picture alliance via Getty Images Cemetery workers in protective suits
  shovel earth at the Vila Formosa cemetery in the Brazilian city of Sao
  Paulo amid the coronavirus pandemic.

  In São Paulo, Brazil’s largest metropolis, authorities [116]recently
  announced plans to dig up cemeteries and store the remains in large
  metal containers in order to make room for new coronavirus victims.

  Obtaining an accurate picture of the situation in Brazil has been
  challenging, however, due to the widespread underreporting of cases.
  The testing rate in the United States, for example, has been 37,188
  tests per 1 million inhabitants. In Brazil, the rate has been just
  8,737 per million inhabitants.

  Moreover, the Brazilian government has been accused of trying to
  [117]mask the deadly impact of the pandemic after the health ministry
  [118]removed months of data from a website that had been tracking
  COVID-19 earlier this month.

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has long played down the dangers of
  the pandemic, replaced medical experts in the health ministry with
  military officials and argued against state lockdowns to fight the
  virus, hobbling the country’s public health response.

  Other countries have moved to lift lockdown restrictions even as the
  number of coronavirus cases continues to rise.

  “We have to head toward the new normality, because the national economy
  and the well being of the people depends on it,” Mexican President
  Andrés Manuel López Obrador [119]said earlier this month.

  On Thursday, Mexico’s health ministry reported a record 5,662 new
  confirmed cases of coronavirus infections and 667 additional
  fatalities, bringing the country’s total to 165,455 cases and 19,747
  deaths. The government has said the real number of infected people is
  likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases.

  India, too, is continuing to loosen lockdown measures across the
  country, despite an escalating number of cases.

  On Thursday, the Indian health ministry reported [120]a record spike in
  the number of coronavirus cases, bringing the total to nearly 400,000.
  A worker paints beds to be used at a railway hospital in Chennai,
  India, to accommodate coronavirus patients, March 30.
  P. Ravikumar / Reuters A worker paints beds to be used at a railway
  hospital in Chennai, India, to accommodate coronavirus patients, March
  30.

  In New Delhi, hospitals have been running out of beds, and some
  patients have been turned away for lack of space.

  “On 1 June, we downloaded the report which said that our father-in-law
  was COVID positive. That’s when our ordeal began,” Mandeep Singh
  [121]wrote in HuffPost India.

  “Though they had promised, Ganga Ram Hospital did not contact us. When
  we tried calling them to figure what we should do next, no one answered
  those calls.

  “Frustrated, we started reaching out to the other hospitals we knew
  were admitting COVID patients. We called Max, Apollo, AIIMS, Safdurjung
  — all the hospitals directed us not to come as they did not have beds.”

  Patients have been left unattended in corridors of government-run
  hospitals. Local media reports of dead bodies in a hospital lobby
  prompted the Supreme Court to order the state administration to get its
  act together.

  On Sunday, the federal government said it will provide New Delhi’s city
  authorities with 500 railway coaches that will be equipped to care for
  coronavirus patients, in order to address the shortage of hospital
  beds.

  A study released this week suggested that the peak of the outbreak
  could come in November, and that India was [122]likely to experience a
  shortage of ventilators and ICU beds.

  “I don’t think we expected that cases would rise this much,” a lawmaker
  of the Aam Aadmi party that runs the capital [123]told Reuters. “We
  were so over-confident.”

  With reporting from HuffPost Brazil, HuffPost India and Reuters.
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