Video: Brazilian gravediggers unearth graves for coronavirus victims
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Gravediggers in Brazil are digging up the dead to make way in cemeteries for the skyrocketing victims of Covid-19, after the country has become the second most fatal country in the world.
The bodies of those who died three years ago have been removed from the cemetery after Brazil now has the second highest death toll at more than 42,000.
Currently, the South American nation has overtaken Great Britain to take the second place in the number of deaths in the world after the United States.
The São Paulo Municipal Funeral Service said in a statement that the remains of people who died at least three years ago will be exhumed and placed in numbered bags and then stored in 12 metal containers.
The containers will be delivered to several cemeteries within 15 days, the report said.
Sao Paulo is one of the hottest COVID-19 hotspots in Latin America's worst-hit country, with 5,480 deaths as of Thursday in a city of 12 million.
Some health experts are worried about the new spike now that a drop in intensive care bed occupancy to around 70% prompted Mayor Bruno Covas to authorize a partial reopening of the business this week.
Many health experts predict that the Brazilian pandemic will peak in August, spreading from the major cities where it first appeared to the interior of the country.
The virus has killed nearly 42,000 Brazilians so far, and Brazil surpassed the UK on Friday to become the country with the world's second-highest death toll.
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