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Friday, March 18, 2022

BRAZIL - Covid-19: Brazil sees omicron cases soar but data blackout obscures true impact [BMJ, January 2022]

Title:
Covid-19: Brazil sees omicron cases soar but data blackout obscures true impact
 
Author:
Luke Taylor
 
Published:
BMJ, 18 January 2022
 
From the article:
The omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has led to a spike in infections in Brazil with a rolling average of 69 010 new daily cases reported on 14 January, up from 22 626 a week earlier. But the true increase is likely to be significantly higher because of insufficient testing and failing public health databases, said public health experts.