![Brazil’s rapid and violent Covid variant devastates Latin America Brazil’s rapid and violent Covid variant devastates Latin America](https://realnews.today/media/5760-1-310x168.jpg)
Apparently more contagious P1 variant linked to Brazil makes an already shattering Covid crisis somehow even worse. Nearly 1 million Latin American lives have been lost here since the region’s first Covid case was detected in February 2020, and the pandemic is now accelerating again in countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela and Uruguay, with many convinced the Brazilian variant bears much of the blame.