Coroner makes house calls in Brazilian city slammed by Covid-19 2 minutes read
By Maria Angelica Troncoso
Manaus, Brazil, Jan 16 (efe-epa).- More than 1,000 people have been buried over the last seven days in this Amazon metropolis battered by coronavirus and the coroner’s office is making house calls to expedite the issuance of death certificates so families can lay deceased loved ones to rest.
A record 213 funerals took place in Manaus on Friday, 102 of them for victims of Covid-19.
Brazil is second only to the United States in coronavirus deaths, with more than 208,000, and the South American nation ranks third globally in the number confirmed cases – now approaching 8.4 million.