After over 556,000 pandemic-related deaths, Brazil features near the very bottom on Bloomberg’s Covid resilience ranking, which evaluates 53 countries each month on aspects such as pace of vaccination, number of deaths, and economic prospects. In April, the country finished dead last.
Amid corruption scandals involving vaccine purchases, Brazil’s immunization campaign took its time to get off the ground. So far, just under 20 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, meaning any prospect of returning to normality remains some way away. To get a grasp of what the current pandemic situation means to Brazil’s vast and...
