Authorities said that at least eight people, including four girls, had been killed after a landslide caused by heavy rains in Manaus, in the Brazilian State of Amazonas. The event occurred late Sunday in the precarious Nova Floresta neighborhood in Manaus.
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Brazil s Manaus City Declares State Of Emergency Amid Rise In COVID-19 Cases
The Brazilian city Manaus has declared a state of emergency for a period of 180 days due to an increase in the coronavirus (COVID-19) cases.
The Brazilian city Manaus has declared a state of emergency for a period of 180 days due to an increase in new coronavirus cases. Manaus was one of the first Brazilian cities to be affected by the pandemic during early 2020. With an increase in the cases, the hospitals in the city have reached their capacity and also the cemetery was forced to bury people in mass graves.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Recently sworn in, Mayor David Almeida yesterday accepted that Manaus, capital city of Brazil´s Amazonas state, is experiencing a new collapse of its health system, amid an increase in cases and hospitalizations of Covid-19 patients. According to him, if mortality rates remain unchanged, the city will only have available graves for another two or three months . Manaus was the first city in Brazil to see its health system collapse and was also the first to come out of it. And we are collapsing again in this second wave of Covid-19 assistance, Almeida said . . .