Brazil’s Covid-19 response is worst in the world, says Médecins Sans Frontières

The medical NGO says government negligence is costing lives as death toll exceeds 362,000, second only to US

The Brazilian government's negligent response to Covid-19 has plunged the South American country into a snowballing humanitarian catastrophe" that is likely to intensify in the coming weeks, the medical NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres has warned.

I have to be very clear in this: the Brazilian authorities' negligence is costing lives," the group's international president, Christos Christou, told reporters on Thursday after Brazil's official death toll rose to more than 362,000, second only to the US.