Subdued Brazil New Year celebrations met with silence in COVID-19 ward

Subdued Brazil New Year celebrations met with silence in COVID-19 ward
Reuters
1/01/2021
By Leonardo Benassatto
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilians saw in 2021 with fireworks under unusual social distancing measures, while in a hospital intensive care ward outside Sao Paulo, doctors tending COVID-19 patients held one minute of silence for the passing of a deadly year.
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New Year celebrations at a field hospital in Santo Andre
Medical staff stood at the foot of beds with people hooked up to ventilators, and then went around wishing their patients a happy New Year through face shields and masks.
The sound of fireworks in the streets outside broke the monotony of whirring ventilators and beeping monitors.

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