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Brazil becomes the new access point for the crown. Currently, more than 600 people die every day. Health care threatens to collapse in Rio and São Paulo. This has already happened in the jungle metropolis of Manaus.
By Ivo Marusczyk, ARD Studio Buenos Aires and Matthias Ebert, ARD studio Rio de Janeiro
In the Manaus cemetery there is no time left for proper funerals or even funerals. As soon as the gravediggers have lowered a coffin to the ground, a bulldozer comes and dumps the ditch. A coffin next to each other, one dead after another. Five relatives can accompany the dead to the cemetery. One of them is Lindi Ramos, who lost her mother-in-law to Covid-19.
“She died little by little. First the kidneys failed, then the virus entered the brain. Only the lungs. Then everything failed and she died. There was no longer an intensive care bed for her. No one could give her a place to get. That is why she died. ”
Val Soares has had the same experience. She cries for her grandmother.
“I have no more tears because we cried a lot. My grandmother died because there was no fan for her. If there had been a fan in the room, she would have survived.”
The dead lie in refrigerated containers.
Hundreds of people are now buried in Manaus every day, sometimes as many as 120, before the pandemic that was around 30 years old. In the metropolis, the health system has collapsed. All intensive care beds have been occupied for weeks. Some of the dead are in refrigerated containers.
Isolations and contact locks were placed in Manaus. But many people cannot maintain these barriers at all. For example, vendors at the fish market. For them there is no financial aid from the state and they have no reserve with which they can live for a few weeks.
A fish seller tells him that he has to work, his family lives on it. ARDTelevision equipment. A problem that exists throughout Brazil. Also, the policy sends different signals. President Bolsonaro continues to fight against all restrictions, Economy Minister Guedes paints the scene of a complete collapse of the economy, while governors and mayors beg people to stay home. Like Arthur Virgilio Neto, the mayor of Manaus.
“The president always says you don’t have to stay home. And we say: stay home. Real competition. The situation is difficult, but we are fighting a tough fight that costs blood, sweat and tears, but we have to do it.” win “.
City seized
He has already contacted Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron and Greta Thumberg in hopes of drawing attention to their city. Manaus can only be reached by boat or plane. The city is located in the middle of the jungle in the state of Amazonas, which is more than four times the size of Germany. But there are only 50 intensive care beds. Some people don’t even get help when a relative is bad. You know the state that hospitals can no longer help.
“If there had been an intensive care bed for my brother, we would have taken him to the hospital and he could still be alive. But before he died there, it would be better at home.”
Lenise Trinidade, from the municipal social welfare office, now has to organize funerals for the many people who cannot afford a funeral home. She also says that the number of diseases has literally invaded Manaus.
“No one was prepared for that. Everyone was scared when the first death occurred. We didn’t know at all how big the problem would be.”
