Encouraging signs are emerging in the fight against the pandemic globally, but Brazil is battling a resurgence. The country has hit a daily record for Covid-19 deaths as hospitals verge on near collapse under a second coronavirus wave.
This has been made worse by a new virus strain found in the city of Manaus in Brazil’s Amazon.
Fabio Biolchini, a field coordinator with Doctors Without Borders explains from Manaus.
"Manaus was the first big city in Brazil to be a victim of this big second wave that nobody was expecting to be that hard. The second wave came first to Manaus and now it's reaching the other cities in Brazil. And it's a very scary situation."
Fabio says there are a lot of assumptions about the new variant.
"What we do know is that the presence of this variant in the second wave was very high. Even if it's not a scientific conclusion, I think we can assume and that we have to be very careful about this new P1 variant. Whatever it is, it could be related to a higher transmission. And we can unfortunately see what we saw in Manaus in other places. There is this assumption that this big and difficult second wave in Manaus is pretty much linked with the P1 variant."
Working in the hard-hit city of Manaus has been very emotional for Fabio.
"It was quite shocking when I entered the hospital for the first time when I arrived in Manaus. Not only by the amount of patients that I saw, there were patients everywhere. It's very emotional and it's very hard to watch. But I think that every person that lost a family member is traumatized, of course, by their loss. But also health workers, they have seen that every day, many, many times. And they are very traumatized as well. Not only by the overload of work, the extra hours, but also by seeing so many dead bodies coming."
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