By Naiara Galarraga Gortazar and Steffanie Schmidt (El Pais)
The security guard dressed in a bulletproof vest running, followed by a woman, carries in his arms a blue cylinder which he treats with infinite delicacy, as if it were a baby.
It is actually an oxygen cylinder.
They are heading towards a car under a blazing sun.
“It's for my mother,”
says Afra Benedito, 46.
She says with anguish that this bottle will help her mother, Fátima, breathe four more hours.
At 71, the coronavirus took her husband a few days ago and is now attacking his own life.
We are in Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian Amazon, where the nightmare of dying of suffocation has become a sad reality in hospitals and homes.
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The prosecution is investigating the death of more than 50 people, who allegedly suffered this dramatic fate.
"An extremely conservative figure"
, underlines Jesem Orellana, epidemiologist at Fiocruz, a health institute
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