Coronavirus
Covid-19: Brazil digs mass graves as death toll hits 21,000
Due to the Covid-19 death rate in Brazil rising astronomically, the authorities are said to have started digging mass graves to bury victims.
With 21,116 deaths from coronavirus on Friday, Brazil was the world’s second-worst affected country before Russia recorded 335,882 infections yesterday.
Brasilia has over 330,000 coronavirus infections, the third-worst affected country in the world and the worst affected in South America.
It briefly overtook Russia as the world’s number two hotspot for Covid-19 before Moscow recorded 335,882 infections yesterday morning.
Aerial video showed rows of open plots at the Formosa Cemetery in Brazil’s worst-hit city Sao Paulo
The World Health Organization (WHO) Emergencies Director Mike Ryan told a virtual news conference that South America is a new ‘epicentre’ for the disease.
“In a sense, South America has become a new epicentre for the disease. We have seen many South American countries with increasing numbers of cases,” Ryan said..
“Clearly there is a concern across many of those countries, but clearly the most affected is Brazil at this point.”
READ ALSO: Brazil surges to second in Covid-19 cases, behind the U.S.
President Jair Bolsonaro has come under intense attack for his handling of the outbreak especially his opposition to social distancing measures, support of the unproven remedy chloroquine, and tussles with experienced public health officials.
Two health ministers have left since the outbreak of the virus after pressuring them to promote the early use of anti-malarial drugs like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. Several high-profile public health experts have also left. Many have been replaced by soldiers.
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