USP study points to Brazil as the new global epicenter of the coronavirus.
After China, Europe, and the United States, Brazil could become the new epicenter of COVID-19.
247 - Given underreported cases of covid-19, the total number of people infected with coronavirus in Brazil, as of Tuesday (5), could be 1.657.752, according to a study published by the Ribeirão Preto Medical School of USP (University of São Paulo).
In the "best-case scenario," Brazil would have 1.345.034 cases and 2.021.177 in the "worst-case scenario," numbers far below the 114.715 official cases reported by the Ministry of Health, according to [source missing]. UOL
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Domingos Alves, one of the researchers involved in the study, said that the numbers point to Brazil as the global epicenter of the coronavirus.