According to a report by news website UOL, the city of São Paulo does not test enough people to successfully monitor the spread of the coronavirus. As of February 14, Brazil’s most populated city had run just 17,000 tests for every 100,00 inhabitants. New York City, meanwhile, managed to do 11 times as many tests.
Low testing is considered one of the main causes for São Paulo’s 700,000 suspected cases of Covid-19 — and over 20,000 confirmed deaths.
In countries which performed better at taming the pandemic’s human toll — such as Cuba and Uruguay — mass testing was the centerpiece of the governments’ coronavirus responses.
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