Coronavirus: Brazil currently has 82 infected people, according to a group of researchers.
The "Covid-19 Brazil" group, which has so far correctly predicted all its analyses, says that Brazil currently has 82 people infected with the new coronavirus.
247 - A projection by the "Covid-19 Brazil" group, which brings together several researchers from Brazilian universities, indicates that Brazil currently has 82 infected people, not 12.056 as reported by the government. The GlobeThe projections take into account the age structure of the population based on IBGE data.
According to Clarissa Damaso, a virology professor at UFRJ and advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) Committee for research on the smallpox virus, "in Brazil we are doing poorly in testing. To know the size of the current wave and even project a future one, we need tests; this will tell us how many infected people we have. China is now afraid of a second wave because China tested very little in the first. The Chinese don't know how many asymptomatic cases they have, how many are mild cases. That's why they are desperately rushing with extreme control and testing measures," she explains.
Domingos Alves, from the Health Intelligence Laboratory (LIS) at the Ribeirão Preto Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo (USP), says that "Brazil's curve is steeper than that of the United States, and we are still in the first half of the climb, whose peak may only be reached in May, in an optimistic scenario, and in November, in a pessimistic one," the report states.