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Brazil lacks coronavirus tests, other equipment, report says

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RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian health officials grappling with the new coronavirus outbreak have issued a stark warning about a lack of hospital beds, masks, testing devices and trained staff across Latin America's largest nation.

A Health Ministry report issued on Friday said Brazil can currently carry out 6,700 COVID-19 tests a day, but that it will need to process as many as 30,000–50,000 tests daily during the peak of the outbreak, expected in June.

This latest assessment of the public healthcare system raises serious questions about its capacity to face the outbreak in a country of nearly 210 million.

It also calls for the maintenance of quarantine measures in states that are most badly hit, challenging President Jair Bolsonaro's more

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