Avener Prado/Especial para HuffPost Homeless people queue for food at a medical screening center in São Paulo. SÃO PAULO and BRASÍLIA — Brazil’s death toll from the coronavirus surpassed Italy’s on Thursday after the nation’s health ministry reported 1,437 deaths in the previous 24 hours. São Paulo, the country’s biggest city and the epicenter of the epidemic in Brazil, also shows how the poor are more likely to die from COVID-19. Raquel Rolnik, a professor of architecture and urbanism at the University of São Paulo, said that inequality is stark within Brazilian cities. In private hospitals in São Paulo, between 20% and 30% of beds remain open.

Source: Huffington Post June 07, 2020 09:45 UTC