The person who issued the warning was Fernando Maximo, head of the Rondonia state health agency, one of the places heavily affected by Covid-19 in Brazil.
Meanwhile, Bahia state Governor Rui Costa said `Brazil will fall into chaos in two weeks`.
Most of the world is applying measures to limit or promote Covid-19 vaccination to control the pandemic, but the situation in Brazil is worse than ever.
The hospital bed utilization rate is also reaching its highest level.
A tractor is digging graves for Covid-19 victims in the new area of Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus city, Brazil, on January 8.
From the beginning of the pandemic, the situation in Brazil was more serious than in most of the world.
More than 250,000 Brazilians have died from Covid-19, making the country the second deadliest epidemic region in the world after the United States.
`With this situation, if we don’t act, by March everyone will be fighting over both hospital beds and graves in the cemetery. We will need to open a new cemetery to bury the bodies,` Domingos Alves, expert
Health analysts warn that the pandemic in Brazil risks having a significant impact globally.
`If Brazil does not control the virus, this will become the largest nCoV mutation laboratory in the world,` said Miguel Nicolelis, an epidemiologist at Duke University in the US.
Brazil is Nicolelis’s homeland.
`This is the first time in Brazilian history that 2/3 of the health system in capital cities will collapse at the same time. I don’t mean Manaus, but Sao Paulo, the most prosperous city in the Southern Hemisphere. Perhaps
Nicolelis and Alves both called for an immediate three-week nationwide lockdown to avoid a humanitarian disaster.
However, coordinating nationwide efforts to contain the virus seems impossible.
`They can be harmful to children. Side effects of masks are starting to appear,` Bolsonaro said last week, adding that side effects include causing anger, headaches and difficulty concentrating.
Some cities have imposed new restrictions, such as a curfew in Brasilia and a request to close non-essential businesses in Porto Alegre.
Brazil’s unemployment rate is peaking and millions of people are being pushed into poverty.
Ligia Bahia, a professor of public health at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, said that Brazil’s tragedy was the result of doubt winning over reason and politics taking precedence over science.
Bahia assesses that the Brazilian government and people still have time to act.
However, Bahia remains worried about the outlook in the coming weeks.