The situation in Manaus is already drawing the attention of our neighboring countries, this Tuesday's Bulletin pointed out that 1,809 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus have already been registered. Mass graves were opened in the cemetery to bury victims of Covid-19.
The city that so supported the country's conversational movement is now suffering from the impacts of the new coronavirus, which is taking around 100 people a day. collapse is installed, the population suffers from lack of space in funeral homes.
In a funeral interview with Amazon Network, the Mayor of Manaus, Arthur Virgílio Neto, informed that there were 106 burials made in Manaus, last Monday (20), and 36 were people who died at home.
Manaus is in danger – authorities are on alert
With this sad situation in the city, the mayor said that the state of public calamity with the scenario of the new coronavirus has already been installed. The last update made by the Health Surveillance Foundation (FVS-AM), of the 2,270 confirmed cases in Amazonas until this Tuesday (21), 1,809 are from Manaus.
The video posted on the internet relating the high rates of burials made per day in Manaus, during the pandemic of the new coronavirus, with the period of other respiratory syndromes, such as the H1N1 flu. For the mayor, the data show a need for measures to assist patients who remain at home.
In Amazonas, the burial rate has increased alarmingly.
This, both in the ICU and in the hospital beds. According to information from the secretary of health, Simone Papaiz.
He emphasized:
“I'll give you some data. Before Covid-19, the number of burials in Manaus was between 20 and 35. 35 when you had seasonal flu, as happened with H1N1, which was heavy. Suddenly, these numbers were jumping. One day, it hit 66 burials. Then it went to 88. Yesterday [Sunday (19)], it went to 121 burials and today [Monday (20)], 106”
Still according to information given by the mayor, in an interview with Rede Amazônica, of the 122 burials made on Sunday, 17 people died at home.
The number was even higher on Monday (20). Of the 106 burials, 36 people also died in their homes.
And there? What to do? It is the question that needs to be answered, until the closing of this article, no action by the Federal Government to help contain the virus in the city has yet been decreed.
Source: Manaus City Hall