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Friends and family bury their loved ones at the Villa Formosa cemetery, the largest one in Latin America, a day after global Covid-19 deaths surged past two million. IMAGES
Sao Paulo, Brazil Jun 15 (EFE) .- Gravediggers of the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo are racing against the clock to dig more graves and carry out more burials, which have increased with the Coronavirus. (CAMERA: Wallace Carvalho)
Sao Paulo, May 19 (EFE).- Twelve hours and 62 burials. A day without rest on which there is not even time to pray for the departed. This is a typical workday amid the coronavirus pandemic for the gravediggers at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Brazil, the largest burial ground in Latin America.(CAMERA:Wallace Carvalho)
Sao Paulo, Apr 18 (EFE) .- Ahead of an anticipated and dreaded national peak of the COVID-19 epidemic, Brazil has begun digging large-scale graveyards. In Sao Paulo’s Vila Formosa cemetery, the largest in Latin America, about 20 excavators dig against the clock.In the space of a few days, the scene of workers digging painstakingly with shovels has changed to that of operators in masks and white overalls at the controls of heavy machinery.The calm and silence of the Vila Formosa cemetery, where the remains of 1.5 million people are estimated to rest, is broken by the noise of the hydraulic excavators that on Friday started to dig around 1,200 new graves. (Camera: CARLOS MENESES SÁNCHEZ)FOOTAGE SHOWS EXCAVATORS AT WORK IN SAO PAULO'S VILA FORMOSA CEMETERY, BRAZIL. SOUNDBITES: EXCAVATOR OPERATOR LUCIANO NASCIMENTO (IN PORTUGUESE)(00:00:09 - 00:00:12)"They are being more difficult these days, more burials, more people ..."(00:00:28 - 00:00:33) "You have to take care of yourself because the situation is serious. You can see that there are many machines working, many graves being opened because of the pandemic. Whoever is at home, should stay at home."
Sao Paulo's largest cemetery Vila Formosa opens to visitors for the Day of the Dead amid the coronavirus pandemic, with health measures in place for those arriving. IMAGES
Sao Paulo, Aug 6 (EFE).- Sao Paulo, the most populous city in Latin America, hides among its leaden skyscrapers the largest urban coffee plantation in the world, a 10,000 square meter plantation that evokes the origins of the largest metropolis in Brazil.FOOTAGE OF THE COFFEE PLATATION IN SAO PAULO. SOUNDBITES IN PORTUGUESE OF HARUMI HOJO, COORDINATOR OF THE PROJECT.Harumi Hojo:"The plantation has already been used for research and the proposal today is to produce coffee sustainably. Starting this year we will carry out a renovation, bringing other coffees to accompany the behavior of other varieties under the same conditions"
Sao Paulo, May 6 (EFE) .- The more than 2,000 animals in the São Paulo zoo, the largest in Brazil and one of the largest in Latin America, reign the centre amid the silence of the quarantine.FOOTAGE OF THE ZOO.
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