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Cemetery workers carry the remains of 89-year-old Abilio Ribeiro, who died of the new coronavirus, for burial at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, on Jan. 6. The day before, Manaus declared a 180-day state of emergency due to a surge of new cases of the coronavirus. Edmar Barros / AP
Originally published on January 22, 2021 2:55 pm
When the health system first collapsed in the Amazonian city of Manaus, Brazil, and COVID-19 victims were buried in mass graves, the mayor sent a desperate appeal to then-President Donald Trump and other world leaders. We are doing our best, but I tell you, it s still very little in [the] face of the oncoming barbarism said Arthur Virgílio Neto in a video message. We cannot be silent. We need all possible help.
COVID-19 leaves Amazonas health system saturated, overloaded and struggling
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The health system in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, in northwestern Brazil, has collapsed for the second time. Although hospitals have been adding COVID-19 bed capacity at an astonishing rate, the numbers of new patients with the coronavirus have continued to grow even faster, meaning the entire health system is saturated and overloaded.
More seriously, the city s capacity to produce oxygen is running at less than a third of the current needs, leaving some hospitals unable to ventilate patients and reportedly resulting in people dying of asphyxiation. The knock-on effect on towns upriver, in the rural Amazon region, are starting to show, and could be just as devastating.
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