Brazil has the second highest number of cases in the world, behind the US, with more than 584,000 - and 32,548 people have died.
We could see the body of Afonso de Souza through the door to his breeze block single room.
Despite its remoteness, despite the vastness of the Amazon, the rainforest and its river did nothing to protect its people from the virus as it swept through and actually still is. We did not know what to expect in the cemetery. What we saw was a vast area of newly dug graves, grave diggers in hazmat suits digging more graves and tending to those holding the bodies of the dead. It is exceptionally grim.
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