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Emergency measures pile pain on to mourning families as coronavirus tears through the ill-prepared jungle-flanked city The city’s mayor, Arthur Virgílio, pleaded for urgent international help. “We aren’t in a state of emergency – we’re well beyond that. We are in a state of utter disaster … like a country that is at war – and has lost,” he said. The Guardian 'Utter disaster': Manaus fills mass graves as Covid-19 hits the Amazon
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Emergency measures pile pain on to mourning families as coronavirus tears through the ill-prepared jungle-flanked city The city’s mayor, Arthur Virgílio, pleaded for urgent international help. “We aren’t in a state of emergency – we’re well beyond that. We are in a state of utter disaster … like a country that is at war – and has lost,” he said. The Guardian 'Utter disaster': Manaus fills mass graves as Covid-19 hits the Amazon
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Emergency measures pile pain on to mourning families as coronavirus tears through the ill-prepared jungle-flanked city
The city’s mayor, Arthur Virgílio, pleaded for urgent international help.
“We aren’t in a state of emergency – we’re well beyond that. We are in a state of utter disaster … like a country that is at war – and has lost,” he said.
The Guardian