Brazilian city fighting 'horror movie' COVID19 pandemic conditions
Bodies are piling up in refrigerated trucks outside overwhelmed hospitals. Doctors are in short supply. Bulldozers are digging mass graves at cemeteries. And the worst of the pandemic is yet to come.
"It is a scene out of a horror movie. We are no longer in a state of emergency but rather of absolute calamity," Manaus Mayor Virgilio Neto told AFP by telephone. Public health experts say the figures could actually be a staggering 15 times higher in reality, because of scant COVID-19 testing. At a cemetery called Parque Taruma, crews are digging gashes in the earth to make mass graves for coronavirus victims. On orders from the mayor, no more than five relatives can gather to say a quick goodbye.
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