Brazil coronavirus: medics fear official tally ignores ‘a mountain of deaths’

Lack of testing and failure to report on cases means scale of outbreak could be far greater than thought, doctors warn

Brazil is bracing for a surge in coronavirus cases as doctors and researchers warn that underreporting and a lack of testing mean nobody knows the real scale of Covid-19's spread.

"What's happening is enormous underreporting," said Isabella Rillo, a doctor working in emergency and intensive care in Rio de Janeiro hospitals, in a widely shared Facebook post challenging official numbers. "There are MANY more," she wrote.