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Covid-19 in Brazil: millions, not thousands
The real number of Brazilians who have been infected by the coronavirus should be at least seven times higher than official statistics suggest. The finding comes after the initial stage of the very first nationwide study on the Covid-19 spread in Brazil, commissioned by the federal government, coordinated by the Federal University of Pelotas (in southern Brazil), and carried out by pollster Ibope.
- The research suggests that between 2.7 and 3.3 million people have been infected — against the official tally of just 375,000.
- In some cities of the Amazon, the infection rate has reportedly reached 25 percent of the local population.
- “Even with the margin of error, we can say for sure that the Covid-19 count in Brazil is in the millions, not the thousands.”
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