Brasilia, April 25 (RHC)-- Brazil has reported its highest daily death toll since the beginning of the pandemic, with over 400 COVID-19 deaths within 24 hours.  This comes as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro continues to lash out against restrictions imposed by local governments across Brazil to control the spread of the coronavirus.

In Peru, medical workers are protesting the country’s hospitals’ lack of preparedness, with coronavirus cases topping 20,000 and a death toll of over 500.  Many hospitals are on the verge of collapse. 

Rosmini Ayquipa, a nurse at one of the worst-affected hospitals in Lima, told reporters: “We have to use these face masks right now, with the exposure we are having, and to dispose of them.  That is what the World Health Organization has said, which is to use and dispose.  But we have to wear this face mask for the whole month.  We have to use three face masks for a whole month, so we reuse it and reuse it.  So what has happened?  Where I work, colleagues have become infected.”