{"id":59543,"date":"2020-05-14T10:56:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T13:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=59543"},"modified":"2020-08-08T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T19:38:13","slug":"31-rio-favelas-confirmed-with-covid-19-and-the-dangers-of-underreporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=59543","title":{"rendered":"Underreporting in Favelas Makes Brazil Pandemic the World\u2019s Most Dangerous: 31 Rio Favelas Confirmed With Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is our latest article on the <\/i>new coronavirus as it impacts Rio de Janeiro\u2019s favelas<\/a>.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

In Brazil, due to dramatically insufficient testing and delays in the release of test results<\/a>, the underreporting of Covid-19 cases and deaths is enormous. The high number of deaths in relation to the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 and the spike in cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)<\/a>, in addition to expansions in morgue capacity in Rio de Janeiro hospitals<\/a> are all evidence of this phenomenon.<\/p>\n

In April, specialists estimated that for each confirmed Covid-19 death, there could be at least nine that have gone unreported<\/a>. The actual number of Covid-19 cases in Brazil could be up to 15 times higher<\/a> than declared. Brazil now has the highest transmission rate in the world<\/a>. In Rio favelas, underreporting is even worse. The number of deaths in proportion to confirmed cases is twice that of the rest of the city<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If initially the effects of the disease were felt first in the city’s wealthy<\/a> neighborhoods, coronavirus is now crushing favelas and peripheries<\/a>. Official data<\/a>, however, do not accurately reflect this reality.<\/p>\n