Covid-19: Brazil’s spiralling crisis is increasingly affecting young people
Luke Taylor
Abstract
19: Brazil's spiralling crisis is increasingly affecting young people Luke TaylorBrazil continues to break records for all the wrong reasons as it faces its deadliest episode of the pandemic yet, amid an escalating political crisis.More than 3780 covid-19 deaths were recorded on 30 March, six days after the country recorded its 300 000th life lost to the illness.At least 60 000 Brazilians died with covid-19 in March as the more transmissible variant known as P.1 spread across the country.
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