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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."
Manaus, Jan 14 (EFE).- Manaus, the largest city in the Brazilian Amazon, was placed Thursday under a curfew of eleven hours a day, between 7 pm and 6 am, after the city's health system collapsed due to the Covid-19, forcing authorities to transfer patients to hospitals in other cities. (Camera: RAPHAEL ALVES).B-ROLL OF A HOSPITAL AND THE ALMOST EMPTY STREETS DURING NIGHT CURFEW IN MANAUS, BRAZIL.
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.
Sao Paulo, Apr 26 (EFE).- A group of demonstrators on Sunday took to the streets of Sao Paulo to protest against the social isolation measures imposed by Governor Joao Doria to curb the soread of coronavirus in Brazil, where 61,888 cases and 4,205 deaths have been confirmed.According to local media reports, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, supported the protest and spoke to a group of supporters who advocated the closure of Congress and a military intervention amid the pandemic in Brazil. (Camera: WALLACE CARVALHO).FOOTAGE SHOWS A PROTEST AGAINST SOCIAL ISOLATION AMID COVID-19 PANDEMIC.
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