'Epidemics are not democratic at all. We know this because those who have suffered the most are the poor.' 9News
Coronavirus live updates: PM pledges $131.4 billion to Australian hospitals; COAG to be replaced; Trans-Tasman travel agreement still a while away; No new cases found in Blackwater blitzA man and his dog walk past a body bag that contains the remains of a man infected with the new coronavirus who collapsed on the street and died, according to Police Captain Diego Lopez, in Quito, Ecuador.
The disease took longer to reach the poorer areas of those cities, but now infections are surging in those heavily congested neighbourhoods, and hospitals are stretched. The phenomenon is especially stark in Latin America, the most unequal region in the world behind sub-Saharan Africa. Though the Spaniard she picked up on March 10 had a cough, Sonia didn't immediately worry. That changed a few days later, when she spiked a fever.She was refused care at the local Red Cross and a hospital and had to wait another week before getting treatment. By then, she was struggling to breathe.An aerial view of the Paraisopolis slum alongside the wealthy Morumbi neighbourhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
"The virus is killing all of us here," Ramona Medina, 43, who lived in Villa 31, the oldest slum in Buenos Aires, complained in an interview with The Associated Press in early May.As more of the poor fall sick, the hospitals that serve them are emerging as some of the most stretched. At the Bogota hospital where the first case was diagnosed, only about five per cent of all intensive care unit beds are currently occupied.
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