Coronavirus / Brazil facing a very serious situation due to COVID-19: WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist Maria van Kerkhove has said that Brazil is facing "a very serious situation" with "a number of states in critical condition" due to COVID-19 pandemic. She added that many hospital intensive care units are over 90% full in the country. Brazil is the second-worst coronavirus-hit country in the world with over 1.28 crore COVID-19 cases.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Apr 02, 2021, 04:22 PM
GENEVA- A number of states in Brazil are in critical condition and hospitals are overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, World Health Organization epidemiologist Maria van Kerkhove told a briefing on Thursday.

“Indeed there is a very serious situation going on in Brazil right now, where we have a number of states in critical condition,” she said, adding that many hospital intensive care units are more than 90% full.

Brazil, where a more transmissible virus variant is circulating, has become an epicenter of the pandemic.