Patients in overloaded hospitals waited in despair throughout the day on Thursday as oxygen cylinders arrived to save some, but came too late for others
Dozens of COVID-19 patients in the Amazon rainforest’s biggest city will be flown out of state as the local health system collapses, authorities have announced as dwindling stocks of oxygen tanks meant some people were starting to die breathless at home.
Doctors in Manaus, a city of 2 million people, were choosing which patients to treat, and at least one of the city’s cemeteries asked mourners to line up to enter and bury their dead.
Relatives of patients hospitalised with COVID-19, demonstrate outside the 28 de Agosto hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Manaus, Brazil on January 14, 2021.
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Patients in overloaded hospitals waited in despair throughout the day on Thursday as oxygen cylinders arrived to save some, but came too late for others.
The strains…