In large Amazonian cities like Manaus and Belém, church groups have noticed increasing numbers of homeless people on the streets and higher demands for donations.
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The relatives of patients with COVID-19 take an empty oxygen tank to their car which they will drive to a store to be refilled and bring back, outside the Joventina Dias Hospital in Manaus, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. (Credit: Edmar Barros/AP.)
After a second wave of COVID-19 hit Brazil at the beginning of January, the healthcare system has been struggling to cope, with the medical oxygen supply in the city of Manaus being depleted.
SÃO PAULO – After a second wave of COVID-19 hit Brazil at the beginning of January, the healthcare system has been struggling to cope, with the medical oxygen supply in the city of Manaus being depleted.