Brazil is now the second country in the world to have recorded more than 100,000 deaths from Covid-19. The United States has reported more than 162,000 deaths.
President Jair Bolsonaro, who has himself been infected with the virus, has repeatedly downplayed its effects.
Shops and restaurants have already reopened across the country despite fears that the pandemic is yet to reach its peak. Natalia Pasternak is a microbiologist and the president of the Question of Science Institute.
She speaks to Corin Dann from Sao Paulo.
