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NLJ this week: Letter from Brazil: a lawyer reports on pandemic devastation

05 March 2021
Issue: 7923 / Categories: Legal News , Covid-19 , International justice
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Brazil is one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19. The disease has raced through the population and has already overwhelmed the healthcare system of Manaus in Amazonas.

Writing in NLJ, David Andrew Taylor, partner, Almeida Advogados, Brazil, notes that, despite emergency regulations being put in place, much of Brazil carries on as normal –‘its supermarkets, shopping malls and retail stores are fully open. The beaches and their kiosks and restaurants are being frequented as normal, and public transportation restriction directives are being only very loosely adhered to.’

One of the reasons may be that 16% of the urban population live in favelas (slums). Taylor concludes that the success of Brazil’s immunisation vaccine program is crucial, if the nation is to recover.

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