SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Emerson Barata draws a circular map of Sao Paulo's largest slum, Paraisopolis, and begins to mark confirmed coronavirus cases in blue ink. At the centre of the favela of around 120,000 people, which crowds between luxury apartment blocks and high-walled mansions, he draws four dots.
"It's going to get a lot worse," the 34-year-old tells an assembled medical team, adding another two dots to the favela's outer districts. "The surge hasn't hit yet."
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