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A28 WORLD NEWS
Tuesday 28 april 2020
Is Brazil the next big hot spot as other nations ease up?

and "there could soon be
corpses left on corners." In
the U.S., the governors of
Nevada and Colorado an-
nounced that their states
will join their three West
Coast counterparts in co-
ordinating their reopenings.
In Georgia, where Repub-
lican Gov. Brian Kemp
has moved aggressively
to let businesses reopen,
restaurants received the
go-ahead to resume dine-
in service as long as they
follow certain restrictions,
including keeping tables 6
feet apart.
At Plucked Up Chicken &
Biscuits in Columbus, Geor-
gia, eight regulars showed
up in the morning to have
their coffee and breakfast
and "chatted at each other
across the room," manager
Alesha Webster said. But
only 10 customers could be
inside at a time, well below
the capacity of 45.
Alex Brounstein, owner of
Volunteers from a Christian church serve food to homeless people during a quarantine imposed by the state government to help the Atlanta-based chain
contain the spread of the new coronavirus in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, April 27, 2020. Grindhouse Killer Burgers,
Associated Press. had no plans to reopen
By DAVID BILLER, here for the pandemic to churches and businesses In mid-April, Bolsonaro fired right away. "You're talking
MARCELO DE SOUSA and become much more seri- can safely reopen. The his popular health minister about people putting their
ADAM GELLER ous," said Paulo Brandão, draft under consideration after a series of disagree- mouths on things in your
Associated Press a virologist at the Univer- included suggestions such ments over efforts to con- restaurant. You now have
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Bra- sity of Sao Paulo. Brazil offi- as closing break rooms at tain the virus, replacing dirty dishes going back into
zil is emerging as potentially cially reported about 4,200 offices, using disposable him with an advocate for your kitchen. To me, it's just
the next big hot spot for the deaths and almost 62,000 menus in restaurants and reopening the economy. completely illogical," he
coronavirus amid President confirmed infections, but having students eat lunch Residents protested, lean- said. Technology is likely to
Jair Bolsonaro's insistence the true numbers there, as in their classrooms. ing out their windows to play an important role in
that it is just a "little flu" and in many other countries, — British Prime Minister Bo- bang pots and pans. helping countries ease their
that there is no need for are believed to be vastly ris Johnson returned to Medical officials in Rio de restrictions. Many coun-
the sharp restrictions that higher, given the lack of work after a bout with the Janeiro and at least four tries, including Italy, France,
have slowed the infection's testing and the many peo- virus and warned strongly other major cities have Switzerland and Britain, are
spread in Europe and the ple without severe symp- against easing his own warned that their hospital working on virus-tracking
U.S. toms who haven't sought country's lockdown too systems are on the verge apps and other means of
As some U.S. states and Eu- hospital care. soon: "I refuse to throw of collapse or too over- reducing the labor-inten-
ropean countries moved Some scientists said over away all the effort and the whelmed to take any more sive task of tracing infected
gradually Monday to ease 1 million in Brazil are prob- sacrifice of the British peo- patients. Officials in Sao people's contacts.
their limits on movement ably infected. and the cri- ple and to risk a second Paulo — the largest city in In Australia, with about 80
and commerce, the inten- sis could escalate as the major outbreak and huge South America, in a tightly COVID-19 deaths, 1.1 mil-
sifying outbreak in Brazil country heads into winter, loss of life." packed metropolitan area lion of the country's 26 mil-
— Latin America 's biggest which can worsen respira- — In an unprecedented of over 21 million residents, lion people downloaded a
country, with 211 million tory illnesses. move, New York canceled many of them living in pov- new contract-tracing app
people — pushed hospitals Worldwide, the death toll its Democratic presidential erty — have issued death within 12 hours of its be-
to the breaking point, leav- topped 200,000, according primary, set for June 23, certificates over the past coming available.
ing victims to die at home. to a tally by Johns Hopkins since Bernie Sanders has al- two weeks for 236 people In another encouraging
"We have all the conditions University. The number of ready conceded the nomi- who succumbed at home, sign amid the gloom, New
dead in the U.S. reached nation to Joe Biden. double the number before York state reported 337
about 55,000 — close to the In Brazil, Bolsonaro has dis- the outbreak, according to deaths for the lowest daily
58,000 U.S. troops killed dur- puted the seriousness of the SAMU paramedic ser- count this month, down
ing the Vietnam War. Italy, the coronavirus and said vice. Manaus, an Amazon from a high of nearly 800
Britain, Spain and France people need to resume city of 1.8 million, recorded almost three weeks ago.
accounted for more than their lives to prevent an 142 deaths on Sunday, the And Italy registered its low-
20,000 deaths each. economic meltdown. But most yet. In the main cem- est day-to-day number of
In other developments: most state governors in the etery, workers have been new cases of COVID-19
— In the U.S., the Trump country have adopted re- digging mass graves. Bra- since practically the first
administration worked to strictions to slow the spread zil's funeral industry warned day the nation was put
draw up new guidelines for and pushed people to stay last week that the city under lockdown in early
how restaurants, schools, at home. was running out of coffins March.q