Brazil stares into the abyss as Covid intensive care units fill up everywhere

As Covid-sceptic president continues to spurn lockdown calls, medics describe situation as terrifying and ‘well beyond chaos’

Brazil’s healthcare system has been plunged into the most severe crisis in its history, with doctors overwhelmed and patients dying while they wait for intensive care beds as the country’s Covid-sceptic president, Jair Bolsonaro, continued to spurn calls for a lockdown that would save lives.

As the daily number of infections and deaths soared to new heights this week, researchers from Brazil’s leading healthcare institute, Fiocruz, said South America’s biggest country faced an unparalleled “catastrophe”.

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