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Brazil’s health minister says Omicron causing uncertainty, but doesn’t expect explosion in hospitalizations

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said Monday that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus generates a scenario of uncertainty for the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil but said he does not expect the new strain to cause an explosion of hospitalizations for the disease in the country, despite the increase in cases.

"We have a pandemic scenario of a certain uncertainty in the face of the Omicron variant, with the increase of cases, but we are hopeful that there will not be an explosion of hospital admissions and also a proportional increase in deaths, because our population . . .

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