Deaths from the
Coronavirus outbreak have piled up so fast in the
Amazon rainforest's biggest city that the main cemetery is burying five coffins at a time in collective graves.
"It's chaos here," said Maria Garcia, who waited for three hours in a line of hearses to obtain a death certificate to be able to bury her 80-year-old grandfather, who died at dawn in his home of respiratory collapse.
Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, was the first in
Brazil to run out of intensive care units, but officials warned that several other cities are close behind as the country registered a record 6,276 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday.