i'm rebecca reese has welcome to the program new figures show that brazil now has the 4th largest outbreak of the corona virus in the world nearly 240000 people are infected and more than 15000 have died of covert 19 but health but experts say a lack of testing means that the real figures could be much higher. one by one the sick keep arriving at this hospital north of rio de janeiro. it's barely been open for 2 weeks and already 90 percent of its intensive care unit is full. people are coming from all over the region as other hospitals become overwhelmed by the numbers of patients needing treatment because of it 19 the local health secretary says they're facing an emergency. fund already by bringing this disease is not kidding around and. whoever thinks it's a joke is going to lose their life but have any. brazil has become the epicenter of the disease in south america what's more experts say fatalities have not yet peaked and the worst is still to come yet despite the surge in deaths the new infections the country's president jab also narrow once locked down measures imposed by state gov