{"id":2952,"date":"2020-04-30T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T06:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2020-04-30T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T06:54:10","slug":"amazon-city-resorts-mass-graves-brazil-covid-19-deaths-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/amazon-city-resorts-mass-graves-brazil-covid-19-deaths-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon city resorts to mass graves as Brazil COVID-19 deaths soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MANAUS, Brazil &#8212; Deaths from the coronavirus outbreak have piled up so fast in the Amazon rainforest\u2019s biggest city that the main cemetery is burying five coffins at a time in collective graves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Seemore:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wall-street-uniform-get-new-accessory-face-mask.html\">Wall Street uniform to get a new accessory \u2013 the face mask<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/covid-19-complication-seen-children-rare-says.html\">COVID-19 complication seen in children is \u2018rare\u2019, WHO says<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon, the city may run out of coffins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s chaos here,\u201d said Maria Garcia, who waited for three hours in a line of hearses to obtain a death certificate to be able to bury her 80-year-old grandfather, who died at dawn in his home of respiratory collapse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, was the first in Brazil to run out of intensive care units, but officials warned that several other cities are close behind as the country registered a record 6,276 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brazil\u2019s Health Ministry reported 449 related deaths in the prior 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 5,466 out of 78,162 confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Rio de Janeiro, cemeteries have accelerated construction of above-ground vaults to entomb a wave of deceased patients. Undertakers in Manaus even resorted to burying coffins one on top of the other this week, but the city stopped the practice after grieving relatives protested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brazilian right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has downplayed the gravity of the virus, calling it a \u201clittle cold,\u201d came under new criticism for his remarks on the soaring deaths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSo what? I\u2019m sorry, but what do you want me to do?\u201d Bolsonaro told reporters on Tuesday, saying he could not \u201cwork miracles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accelerating death rate in Brazil is the most concerning of all emerging-market nations, Deutsche Bank analysts told clients in a note on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Manaus, which is accessible only by plane or boat from the rest of Brazil, corpses are accumulating in a refrigerated container improvised as a morgue freezer as they await burial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cManaus is today an absolute priority\u201d given the calamity the city is facing, Brazil\u2019s new health minister, Nelson Teich, told reporters. He said a plane with ventilators would be heading there on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Too late for Garcia\u2019s grandfather, Amadeu Garcia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Health authorities had been irresponsible, she told\u00a0<em>Reuters<\/em>\u00a0by telephone, and to make matters worse doctors were refusing to sign death certificates for people who died at home, creating a traffic jam of hearses at the only public health post providing them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the main Taruma cemetery, a new area has been opened where undertakers were digging rows of graves and now just trenches for five coffins at a time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mayor\u2019s office said the city\u2019s funeral system was collapsing and running out of coffins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only three relatives are allowed to attend COVID-19 burials, and sometimes there is nobody to accompany the coffins to the grave. The city is recommending that families cremate their dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANAUS, Brazil &#8212; Deaths from the coronavirus outbreak have piled up so fast in the Amazon rainforest\u2019s biggest city that the main cemetery is burying five coffins at a time in collective graves. Seemore: Wall Street uniform to get a new accessory \u2013 the face mask COVID-19 complication seen in children is \u2018rare\u2019, WHO says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[1087,1123],"class_list":{"0":"post-2952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-buzz","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-covid-19"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}