April would have been a busy month for Brazilian hospitals anyway. As the population still struggles with the dengue virus, influenza season will start kicking in. But this year, the strained healthcare system promises to see the “perfect storm,” according to the Health Surveillance Secretary Wanderson Oliveira. “We will have the coronavirus, which is new, we will have influenza, which is routine every year, and we will also have the peak of dengue,” he told reporters. Brazil’s health ministry has identified more than 9,000 cases of the new coronavirus and at least 359 deaths, the highest records in Latin America. The pandemic coincides with more than 440,000...
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