In Latin America, Covid-19 hits pregnant women hard
Alarm bells rang in Uruguay when eight pregnant women died from the coronavirus in the space of five weeks time a new reality observed recently across Latin America.
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An employee wearing a protective mask takes the temperature of a pregnant shopper waiting to enter a store in São Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. | Bloomberg/Patricia Monteiro I never thought I would go through my pregnancy like this, laments Irene Silva, a Uruguayan woman who has confined herself inside her home in Montevideo out of fear of catching Covid-19.
Brazilian gang filmed themselves murdering a woman, 21, chopping up her body and stuffing it into a suitcase
A Brazilian homicide division received a video on March 1 of a person being dismembered, but didn t know what to make of it at the time
On March 13, Gabriela Lima Santana, 21, was officially reported missing
Municipal workers discovered a body stuffed in a suitcase on March 24 when an arm flung out towards a worker, before landing in the water and floating
Santana was able to be identified through fingerprints and a distinctive tattoo