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RIO- The City Council of Manaus reported Tuesday he’s doing common pits, summoned by the local administration of trenchesto bury victims of the new coronavirus in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida public cemetery, in the Tarumã neighborhood, west of the capital.
As of this Monday, Manaus had already registered 156 deaths from Covid-19. In the state, the number of confirmed cases reached 2,160, with 182 deaths in total.
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With more than 100 deaths per day in the capital last week, the cemetery, which concentrates most burials in the city, is no longer meeting demand. According to information from the city council, since March, there has been an increase of approximately 50% in demand. Dozens of wells had to be opened.
This Tuesday, the city of Manaus reported, through a note, that due to the large increase in the number of burials, the Municipal Secretary of Urban Cleaning (Semulsp) adopted the system of ‘trenches’ to bury the victims of Covid- 19.
“The methodology, already used in other countries, preserves the identity of the bodies and family ties, with the distance between the coffins and the identification of the graves. The measure was necessary to satisfy the demand for burials in the capital,” he says. the note .
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The president of the Union of Funeral Companies of the State of Amazonas, Manuel Viana, confirms that the number of daily deaths has grown above expectations and, therefore, the organization of burials has escaped control.
– Before coronavirus, the average here was 30 burials per day. The funeral sector I made a projection that we would be in April with about 50 deaths a day. But only this Sunday 122 died. On Tuesday of last week (14) there were 102. Since then, this number has only grown.
To find solutions, Manaus created a death crisis committee made up of members of the funeral sector and the municipal secretariats of Women, Social Assistance and Citizenship (Semasc) and Cleaning and Public Services (Semulsp), which began the discussions on Monday. The first measure to try to contain the chaos in the Tarumã cemetery is to increase the number of employees.
Refrigerators
On Monday, Semulsp reported that it installed refrigerated containers in the cemetery to hold coffins waiting for the burial. Videos circulating on social media show rows of funeral cars waiting to bury bodies.
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The measure aims to accelerate the SOS funeral service, which today is the only one available free of charge to the most vulnerable population, to carry out the burial of people who cannot pay the burial costs.
“The cameras are being used to store coffins, while family members await the moment of burial, without the need for the SOS Funeral vehicle to await their release, and now they can return to base for a new call,” he says. a note from Semulsp.
The Amazonas government also installed refrigerated containers in hospital units in Manaus, after the repercussion of a video that showed the bodies with alleged Covid-19 left next to hospitalized patients, at the João Lúcio Hospital, East Zone.
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