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  • Virus surge in Brazil brings a coffin shortage, morgue chaos

    Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/virus-s...haos-1.4920866

    Virus surge in Brazil brings a coffin shortage, morgue chaos
    Diane Jeantet and Alan Clendenning
    The Associated Press
    Published Friday, May 1, 2020 1:56PM EDT

    RIO DE JANEIRO -- In Brazil's bustling Amazon city of Manaus, so many people have died within days in the coronavirus pandemic that coffins had to be stacked on top of each other in long, hastily dug trenches in a city cemetery. Some despairing relatives reluctantly chose cremation for loved ones to avoid burying them in those common graves.

    Now, with Brazil emerging as Latin America's coronavirus epicenter with more than 5,900 deaths, even the coffins are running out in Manaus. The national funeral home association has pleaded for an urgent airlift of coffins from Sao Paulo, 2,700 kilometres (1,700 miles) away, because Manaus has no paved roads connecting it to the rest of the country.

    The city of about 2 million people carved from the jungle has been overwhelmed by death in part because it's the main site where those from remote Amazon communities can get medical services, according to Lourival Panhozzi, president of the Brazilian Association of Funeral Service Providers.

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    May 16, 2020


    Overcrowded, hospital in Rio de Janeiro has accumulation of bodies without refrigeration, says MPT..

    NEWS SUMMARY
    • MPT-RJ denounces a 30% lethality rate in patients with covid
    • Justice forces city hall to acquire containers for morgue
    • According to the complaint, makeup artists eat meals near the corpses
    • Cremerj counted 87 patients in a ward for 14 people
    • City Hall of Rio said it will follow the determinations of Justice

    https://noticias.uol.com.br/saude/ul...ao-diz-mpt.htm

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