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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 3 (EFE), (Camera: Wallace Carvalho).- Brasilandia district, the fourth-most populous in the outskirts of Sao Paulo, is the worst hit by the coronavirus epidemic in the city.FOOTAGE OF BRASILANDIA DISTRICT.SOUNDBITES OF CLAUDIO RODRIGUES, PRESIDENT OF BRASILANDIA RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION: "(The coronavirus) has worsened a problem that had already existed for decades. Regions like Brasilandia have always had problems of public health and suffered with the absence of the state.""Brasilandia has a large black population and people who came from the northeast are now living in the most demanding favelas and communities in the neighborhood. Unfortunately, they are the ones who suffer the most at that time.""Everything that is happening, that great number of deaths in Brasilandia, was already expected, unfortunately. For us, it is not a surprise."
Brazil, the hardest-hit Latin American country in the coronavirus pandemic, has surpassed 10,000 deaths, according to figures released Saturday by the Ministry of Health. The country has now recorded 10,627 deaths and 155,939 confirmed cases. VIDEOGRAPHIC
More than 90,000 people have died of the novel coronavirus worldwide, according to a tally compiled by AFP from official sources. ANIMATED VIDEO
Images from a deserted Piazza di Spagna as Italy's death toll tops 10,000 despite a 16-day lockdown. Its toll from the past three days alone reached 2,520 -- higher than the total number of deaths in the United States and France. Italy now looks certain to extend its economically debilitating -- and emotionally stressful -- ban on public gatherings and business closures past the April 3 deadline. IMAGES
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