Thousands dead and a country in turmoil: Brazil’s countdown to Covid catastrophe
With more than 66,000 deaths in March alone, Brazil is in the midst of a health and political crisis. How did the country get to this point?
2 April 2021 • 6:00am
A man mourns his mother in Manaus, a sprawling city in the Amazon that has been hit by two devastating waves of Covid-19
Credit: Simon Townsley
The calamity currently unfolding in Brazil is off the charts. In March alone, 66,570 people died of Covid-19, while daily fatalities in the vast country currently account for about a quarter of the global total.