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• Covid: political chaos and poverty leave South America at virus’s mercy

  02-05-2021 20:42 via theguardian.com
  
  President Jair Bolsonaro’s prediction that the coronavirus crisis was nearing an end was misguided in Brazil and many of its neighboursCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth America produced some of the most horrific episodes of the pandemic last year, with mass graves dug in the Brazilian Amazon and bodies dumped on pavements in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil. But at the end of 2020 there was some hope that with the onset of vaccination the worst might h
  
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• Political chaos and poverty leave South America at virus’s mercy

  02-05-2021 10:15 via theguardian.com
  
  President Jair Bolsonaro’s prediction that the crisis was nearing an end was misguided in Brazil and many of its neighboursCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth America produced some of the most horrific episodes of the pandemic last year, with mass graves dug in the Brazilian Amazon and bodies dumped on pavements in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil. But at the end of 2020 there was some hope that with the onset of vaccination the worst might have passed.
  
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• Act now to prevent oxygen shortage in Covid-hit countries, say campaigners

  02-05-2021 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Focus on vaccines and tests has been obscuring the need for oxygen in low- and middle-income countries Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage The scenes in India of families desperately searching for oxygen for critically ill Covid patients will be repeated in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and other countries in Africa and around the world unless a significant international effort is made to ensure all countries have good oxygen supplies, campaigners have said.The focus on va
  
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• Poor countries need billions in aid to avert Covid catastrophe, experts warn

  02-05-2021 09:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Virus will overwhelm health services across South America, Asia and Africa unless world leaders take urgent actionCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWorld leaders have been warned that unless they act with extreme urgency, the Covid-19 pandemic will overwhelm health services in many nations in South America, Asia, and Africa over the next few weeks.Only billions of pounds of aid and massive exports of vaccines can halt a humanitarian catastrophe that is now unfoldi
  
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• The UK’s role in the global fight against Covid-19 | Observer editorial

  02-05-2021 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ethically and, for its own sake, Britain cannot afford not to take the lead against the pandemic
  The contrast could not be starker. Here in the UK, 3,000 clubbers in Liverpool danced to indoor DJ sets as part of a pilot to trial the safety of mass events as the country gradually reopens. In cities such as Delhi, people with Covid struggle to stay alive as family members desperately try to find a hospital bed in a health system that has collapsed under the strain of India’s second wave. As
  
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