The Sao Jose hospital in the Brazilian working-class city of Duque de Caxias is accepting overflow from other hospitals whose facilities are already maxed out with coronavirus patients.
A medical worker attends to a COVID-19 patient at the Sao Jose municipal hospital, in Duque de Caxias, Brazil, Saturday, May 16, 2020.
“People are coming from all over,” José Carlos de Oliveira, health secretary for the city of Duque de Caxias, told The Associated Press in the hospital’s parking lot. Sao Jose is accepting overflow from other hospitals whose facilities are already maxed out in treating COVID-19 cases.
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