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April 24, 2020

Brazil Coronavirus Deaths Top 400 in a Day; Peru's Hospitals at Breaking Point
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Brazil has reported its highest daily death toll since the beginning of
the pandemic, with over 400 COVID-19 deaths within 24 hours. This comes
as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro continues to lash out against
restrictions imposed by local governments across Brazil to control the
spread of the coronavirus.

In Peru, medical workers are protesting the country's hospitals' lack of
preparedness, with coronavirus cases topping 20,000 and a death toll of
over 500. Many hospitals are on the verge of collapse. This is Rosmini
Ayquipa, a nurse at one of the worst-affected hospitals in Lima.

Rosmini Ayquipa: "We have to use these face masks right now, with the
exposure we are having, and to dispose of them. That is what the World
Health Organization has said, which is to use and dispose. But we have
to wear this face mask for the whole month. We have to use three face
masks for a whole month, so we reuse it and reuse it. So what has
happened? Where I work, colleagues have become infected."



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