Brazil in crisis as COVID-19 rages across country: Reporter s Notebook
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Brazil battling COVID-19 as country faces record death numbers
Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are skyrocketing in South America s largest country, and the spread there could be felt around the world.ABC News
Gravediggers in Brazil can t work fast enough.
Our first stop in Sao Paolo was the city s largest public cemetery where they have specific sections to bury COVID-19 victims. Wearing full personal protective equipment, they re shoveling from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. with funerals lined up back to back, stretching well into the night.
We weren t there long and witnessed two of those funerals a 28-year-old man and 25-year-old woman. While we don t know if they died from the highly contagious Brazilian P1 variant that s currently wreaking havoc on the country, health experts say the difference between what s happening now compared to a year ago is the people dying are younger.
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