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Sao Paulo, Brazil – Nicole Martins had hoped her mother, hospitalised with COVID-19 last month, was on the mend. But when the 24-year-old arrived at the hospital, the look on her father’s face confirmed her worst fears.
“I thought she was getting out,” Martins told Al Jazeera. “But then I got there and saw my dad in tears.”
The Martins are one of hundreds of thousands of Brazilian families who have lost a loved one to COVID-19 since the coronavirus first began spreading across the country like wildfire.
On Thursday the South American nation surpassed 400,000 coronavirus-related deaths, the second-highest total in the world after the United States. More than half of those were recorded in 2021, while April has been the deadliest month since the start of the pandemic.
Sao Paulo, Brazil – Nicole Martins expected her mother, who was hospitalized with COVID-19 last month, to end. But when the 24-year-old arrived at the hospital, the look on his father’s face confirmed the most serious fears.
“I thought he was coming out,” Martins told Al Jazeera. “But then I arrived and saw my father crying.”
Hundreds of thousands of Brazilian families have lost their loved ones against COVID-19 since the coronavirus began spreading like wildfire across the country.
On Thursday, the South American nation surpassed 400,000 coronavirus-related deaths, the second largest in the world after the United States. More than half of them were recorded in 2021, while the pandemic has been the deadliest since the pandemic began.
Brazil backs away from the virus brink as deaths top 400,000
DAVID BILLER, Associated Press
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