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Sao Paulo, Aug 26 (EFE).- Smoke from wildfires and the Covid-19 pandemic are combining to create a public health crisis among the more than 20 million people living in Brazil's portion of Amazonia, according to a report released Wednesday.
Manaus (Brazil), Jan 28 (EFE).- (Camera: Raphael Alves) Ilton Alves has been fighting Covid-19 in the Amazon for more than ten days. He had to pay for the oxygen out of his pocket. Neither his private health insurance nor the public service has treated him. They are collapsed. It is the dramatic reality of the Brazilian state most affected by the pandemic.FOOTAGE OF ILTON AND HIS WIFE ADJANIR.SOUNDBITES AND TRANSLATION OF:Adjanir:"At 58 years old I never thought I would go through everything I'm going through. Seeing my husband sick, without a hospital to take care of him, without having an emergency care, if a life or death situation happens, I have nowhere to go and I have to work to pay the bills and at the expense of getting sick too." Ilton:"I never imagined that I would need oxygen at home, because we have health insurance. The last time I went to the hospital they didn't see me because the hospital was closed. The security guard said it was closed and there would be no service at all. I was sad because we paid health insurance and yet nothing happened at the time. There was no need to hospitalize, but at least to tend to patients, prescribe medications. I went home discouraged."
UPI reports Ohio State University found nearly 40% of US residents plan to attend gatherings of ten or more people this holiday season. Despite concerns over the spread of COVID-19, one-third of respondents said they wouldn't ask attendees at holiday parties with family or friends to wear masks. The data showed that just over 25% indicated that they wouldn't practice social distancing, either. Figures from Johns Hopkins University report nearly 10.5 million people nationally have been sickened by the virus. More than 240,000 have died from it.
Cuiaba, Sep 1 (EFE).- Brazil's Amazon region in August registered some 30,000 forest fires, the second largest number for the month in the past decade, exceeded only by some 5 percent more fires during the same month last year when images of the flames in the world's largest tropical forest sped around the globe, sparking worldwide indignation.Despite the fact that the number of fires in Amazonia has declined in August, there were still 12.4 percent more than the historical average for the month of 26,082 fires, according to figures released on Tuesday by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). (Camera: ROGÉRIO FLORENTINO). SHOT LIST: A FOREST FIRE NEAR CUIABA, BRAZIL, IN THE COUNTRY'S AMAZON REGION.
Novo Progresso, Aug 18 (EFE).- A group of indigenous people on Tuesday held a protest blockading highway BR-163, an important road that crosses Brazil from north to south, against a lack of medical assistance for COVID-19, environmental concerns and the president's infrastructure plans for the Amazon.Members of the Kayapó ethnic group sat on the asphalt in Novo Progresso municipality in the Amazonian state of Pará, located in the north of Brazil, waiting to be heard by regional authorities.(Camera: ERNESTO CARRICO)FOOTAGE SHOWS A GROUP OF INDIGENEOUS PEOPLE PROTESTING IN THE BR-163 ROAD IN NOVO PROGRESSO, IN THE STATE OF PARÁ IN THE NORTH OF BRAZIL.
Sao Paulo, Jul 28 (EFE).- Brazil, confident of having the Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine in December, is closing in on 90,000 deaths during the epidemic that since the end of May has killed an average of 1,000 people per day in the country and threatens to worsen in the southern regions with the arrival of winter.As reported on Tuesday by the Ministry of Health, and without the consolidated data from the state of Pará, to be updated Wednesday, in the last 24 hours Brazil registered 921 new deaths from COVID-19, bringing the total number to 88,539. (Camera: WALLACE CARVALHO). SHOT LIST: B-ROLL OF PEOPLE WEARING FACE MASKS IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL.
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